| Introduction Chronology of Theodore Dreiser's Life and Work Historical Context ofSister Carrie | |
| Sister Carrie | |
| The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces | |
| What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass | |
| We Question of Fortune: Four-fifty a Week | |
| The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers | |
| A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name | |
| The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of Today | |
| The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself | |
| Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned | |
| Convention's Own Tinderbox: The Eye That Is Green | |
| The Counsel of Winter: Fortune's Ambassador Calls | |
| The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards o'er Its Own | |
| Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador's Plea | |
| His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues | |
| With Eyes and Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes | |
| The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth | |
| A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World | |
| A Glimpse through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye | |
| Just over the Border: A Hail and Farewell | |
| An Hour in Elf Land: A Clamor Half Heard | |
| The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit | |
| The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit | |
| The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars With the Flesh | |
| A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind | |
| Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window | |
| Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays | |
| The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate | |
| When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star | |
| A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: The Spirit Detained | |
| The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea | |
| The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream | |
| A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts Its Joys | |
| The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate | |
| Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years | |
| The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff | |
| The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care | |
| A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance | |
| The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate | |
| In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without | |
| Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds | |
| A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal | |
| The Strike | |
| A Touch of Spring:The Empty Shell | |
| The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark | |
| And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy | |
| Curious Shifts of the Poor | |
| Stirring Troubled Waters | |
| The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind Notes | |
| Interpretive Notes | |
| Critical Excerpts Questions for Discussion | |
| Suggestions for the Interested Reader | |
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