Sister Carrie
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young woman steps off a train in Chicago with little more than a suitcase and an unquenchable hunger for the glittering life she has always dreamed of — this is the world of Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's landmark novel that chronicles the relentless rise of Carrie Meeber through the social strata of Gilded Age America. Carrie's journey from a naive Wisconsin farm girl to a celebrated stage actress is driven not by virtue but by desire, ambition, and a shrewd, almost instinctual ability to attract men who can offer her a better life, placing her in sharp moral contrast to the tragic figure of George Hurstwood, whose infatuation with her accelerates his own catastrophic ruin. This unexpurgated edition — introduced by the distinguished literary critic Alfred Kazin — restores Dreiser's original, unfiltered vision, presenting the novel as the unflinching indictment of the American Dream that he always intended it to be. Dreiser's prose is dense, naturalistic, and relentlessly honest, rooted in the tradition of European realism and the philosophy of social Darwinism; he neither punishes Carrie for her transgressions nor rewards her with the happiness she so desperately seeks, leaving the reader to sit with the profound unease of a world governed by appetite and chance. A cornerstone of American literary naturalism, Sister Carrie remains a devastatingly modern portrait of ambition, loneliness, and the hollow promise of success — and a book that rewards re-reading with every passing decade.
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young woman steps off a train in Chicago with little more than a suitcase and an unquenchable hunger for the glittering life she has always dreamed of — this is the world of Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's landmark novel that chronicles the relentless rise of Carrie Meeber through the social strata of Gilded Age America. Carrie's journey from a naive Wisconsin farm girl to a celebrated stage actress is driven not by virtue but by desire, ambition, and a shrewd, almost instinctual ability to attract men who can offer her a better life, placing her in sharp moral contrast to the tragic figure of George Hurstwood, whose infatuation with her accelerates his own catastrophic ruin. This unexpurgated edition — introduced by the distinguished literary critic Alfred Kazin — restores Dreiser's original, unfiltered vision, presenting the novel as the unflinching indictment of the American Dream that he always intended it to be. Dreiser's prose is dense, naturalistic, and relentlessly honest, rooted in the tradition of European realism and the philosophy of social Darwinism; he neither punishes Carrie for her transgressions nor rewards her with the happiness she so desperately seeks, leaving the reader to sit with the profound unease of a world governed by appetite and chance. A cornerstone of American literary naturalism, Sister Carrie remains a devastatingly modern portrait of ambition, loneliness, and the hollow promise of success — and a book that rewards re-reading with every passing decade.