Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels: Sister Carrie (Paperback)

from fig2

At the turn of the century, a country girl leaves home for the big city. At a time when the only choice for women was to marry well, Carrie shows us a different road. While her rabid ambition and vanity indicate her true nature, the society in which she navigates is harsh and unforgiving. Dreiser...

from Schmerguls

824 Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (read 18 Oct 1965) I saw the 1952 movie based on this book, starring Jennifer Jones, on Sept 17, 1952, and confess I remember the movie better than I do the reading of this book. But I do recall that I liked the book, and in my mind it is the best Dreiser no...

from Clif

Published in 1900, this book is credited with having an impact on the course of American literature. Dreiser's sparse style depicts the realities of everyday city life (Chicago and New York) at the turn of the 19th Century in a way that seems to hide nothing. It thus allows the reader to feel tha...

from xieouyang

I was not familiar with this author, who lived around the late 19th, early 20th century, but spotted this novel at Barnes & Noble. It's published in B&N's classics series that I like because they are very reasonably priced. They seem to be well edited- very rarely I find typos or other mistakes a...

from jasonpettus

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.) The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics," then write repor...