Modern Library 100 Best Novels Sister Carrie, (Paperback)

from knightlight777

The trials and tribulations of Sister Carrie as she makes her way up the ladder of success in the big city society of turn of the century Chicago and New York. Dreiser is a great storyteller and the book winds it way through the many twists and turns with a captivating narrative. Looming behind ...

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...