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      Sister Carrie

      by Theodore Drieser
      Published
      Aug 1997
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, Sister Carrie, the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and glittering fame as an actress. With Sister Carrie, the original manuscript of which is in the New York Public Library collections, Dreiser told a tale not "sufficiently delicate" for many of its first readers and critics, but which is now universally recognized as one of the greatest and most influential American novels.

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      First Edition Aug 1997 Doubleday ISBN13 9780385487245 ISBN10 038548724X
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      Dec 2018 Capstone ISBN10 B07M5ZV1F2
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