Sister Carrie (Paperback: Reissue: 512 pages)
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| Editor: | Lee Clark Mitchell |
| Author: | Theodore Dreiser |
| Edited by: | Lee Clark Mitchell |
| Format: | Paperback: Reissue: 512 pages. |
| Publisher: | Oxford Univ Pr (05/15/2009) |
| ISBN: | 0199539081 |
| ISBN13: | 9780199539086 |
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SISTER CARRIE was finished in May, 1900. It has become one of the most historic books in modern American literature, and its widespread acceptance as an American classic marks a major victory that has been won for American letters against the Philistines. With this first novel, Theodore Dreiser demonstrated that he was head and shoulders above his contemporaries. No other writer in America during the present century has exerted as great a moral force on his successors. No other novelist has done more than he to free American letters....In essence, a book stands the test of time when we can translate its meaning into our experiences in our own time and see that it remains significant and alive. And that, I insist, can be done with 'Sister Carrie'. It is one of the major novels in 20th-century American literature.
No other story I know of gets closer to that blind, hopeful, unyielding struggle, that incessant battle against a hospitable and yet recalcitrant environment, which is the pre-eminent mark of American life; no other makes it more real, more poignant, more genuinely dramatic and moving; and no other evokes with greater skill the failure and heart-break that must be, for all the easy success it shows, its normal and preponderous issue.
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- When a girl leaves her 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.'
The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser's remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author's final version.
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