Sister Carrie - Softcover

Dreiser, Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612035221 ISBN 13: 9781612035222

Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Sister Carrie is a Theodore Dreiser novel about a young country girl 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 and later emerges as a famous actress. Sister Carrie is considered as the "greatest of all American urban novels." Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist who the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.

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Review:

"The 'restored' "Sister Carrie" . . . is in many ways a different book, fuller, less cruel, more recognizably Dreiser's own work."--Alfred Kazin, "New York Review of Books"

"No work of such historical repute . . . has ever been republished with such major change. . . . The 'new' novel . . . will probably become the accepted standard."--Herbert Mitgang, "New York Times"

"In restoring Dreiser's masterpiece, the editors of the Pennsylvania Edition have given us more than a literary curiosity; like art historians cleaning a da Vinci fresco, they have uncovered the original glowing with an ancient newness."--Richard Lingeman, "The Nation"

"The 'restored' "Sister Carrie" . . . is in many ways a different book, fuller, less cruel, more recognizably Dreiser's own work."--Alfred Kazin, "New York Review of Books"

"No work of such historical repute . . . has ever been republished with such major change. . . . The 'new' novel . . . will probably become the accepted standard."--Herbert Mitgang, "New York Times"

"In restoring Dreiser's masterpiece, the editors of the Pennsylvania Edition have given us more than a literary curiosity; like art historians cleaning a da Vinci fresco, they have uncovered the original glowing with an ancient newness."--Richard Lingeman, "The Nation"

"The 'restored' "Sister Carrie" . . . is in many ways a different book, fuller, less cruel, more recognizably Dreiser's own work." Alfred Kazin, "New York Review of Books""

"In restoring Dreiser's masterpiece, the editors of the Pennsylvania Edition have given us more than a literary curiosity; like art historians cleaning a da Vinci fresco, they have uncovered the original glowing with an ancient newness." Richard Lingeman, "The Nation""

"No work of such historical repute . . . has ever been republished with such major change. . . . The 'new' novel . . . will probably become the accepted standard." Herbert Mitgang, "New York Times""

"No work of such historical repute . . . has ever been republished with such major change. . . . The 'new' novel . . . will probably become the accepted standard."--Herbert Mitgang, New York Times

"The 'restored' Sister Carrie . . . is in many ways a different book, fuller, less cruel, more recognizably Dreiser's own work."--Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books

"In restoring Dreiser's masterpiece, the editors of the Pennsylvania Edition have given us more than a literary curiosity; like art historians cleaning a da Vinci fresco, they have uncovered the original glowing with an ancient newness."--Richard Lingeman, The Nation

About the Author:

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), American novelist, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and attended Indiana University. He began his writing career as a newspaperman, working in Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was purchased by a publisher who thought it objectionable and made little effort to promote its sale. With the publication of The Financier in 1912, he was able to give up newspaper work and devote himself to writing. He became known as one of the principal exponents of American naturalism, and in 1944, he was awarded the Merit Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1612035221
• ISBN 13: 9781612035222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352