Sister Carrie

By: Theodore Dreiser

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Paperback | 1 August 1994 | Edition Number 1

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“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.”

With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional “fallen woman” story into a genuinely innovative and powerful work of fiction. As he hurled his impressionable midwestern heroine into the throbbing, amoral world of the big city, he revealed, with brilliant insight, the deep and driving forces of American culture: the restless idealism, glamorous materialism, and basic spiritual innocence.

Sister Carrie brought American literature into the twentieth century. This volume, which reprints the text Dreiser approved for publication during his lifetime and includes a special appendix discussing his earlier, unedited manuscript, is the original standard edition of one of the great masterpieces of literary realism.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces	p. 1
What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass	p. 8
Wee Question of Fortune: Four-Fifty a Week	p. 12
The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers	p. 20
A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name	p. 30
The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of To-day	p. 35
The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself	p. 45
Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned	p. 53
Convention's Own Tinder-box: The Eye That Is Green	p. 59
The Counsel of Winter: Fortune's Ambassador Calls	p. 64
The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards O'er Its Own	p. 71
Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador's Plea	p. 78
His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues	p. 85
With Eyes and Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes	p. 92
The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth	p. 98
A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World	p. 107
A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye	p. 113
Just Over the Border: A Hail and Farewell	p. 120
An Hour in Elfland: A Clamour Half Heard	p. 124
The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit	p. 134
The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit	p. 141
The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars with the Flesh	p. 144
A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind	p. 153
Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window	p. 162
Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays	p. 165
The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate	p. 169
When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star	p. 178
A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: The Spirit Detained	p. 186
The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea	p. 194
The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream	p. 204
A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts Its Joys	p. 210
The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate	p. 217
Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years	p. 228
The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff	p. 234
The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care	p. 241
A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance	p. 249
The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate	p. 257
In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without	p. 263
Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds	p. 271
A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal	p. 280
The Strike	p. 286
A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell	p. 299
The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark	p. 306
And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy	p. 313
Curious Shifts of the Poor	p. 320
Stirring Troubled Waters	p. 331
The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind	p. 340
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