Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie first edition 1900. The publishers kept the cover intentionally bland in order not to promote what was expected to be a controversial work.[1]
AuthorTheodore Dreiser
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary realism
Set inChicago, New York City and Montreal, 1889–93
PublisherDoubleday, Page
Publication date
1900
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages557
OCLC11010924
813.52
LC ClassPS3507 .R55
Followed byJennie Gerhardt 
TextSister Carrie at Wikisource
A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels".[2]

  1. ^ *Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie: Unexpurgated Edition. New York Public Library Collector's Edition. 1997 Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-48724-5 – see "Introduction"
  2. ^ Donald L. Miller, City of the Century, (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996) p. 263.

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