Sister Carrie (Paperback)

from JVioland

The progression of a "Good Girl" down the primrose path to becoming a kept woman. If you have ever known an attractive girl, with a winning personality and an astute intelligence - who hasn't known such a person - and wonder what has become of her, hopefully she has not had a similar life as Carr...

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 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 AndrewBlackman

When the heroine, Carrie, was first introduced as a naive small-town girl heading to Chicago and falling for the advances of a travelling salesman on the train, I was worried that this would be a simple tragedy, where the helpless Carrie gets chewed up by the big city and ruined. Fortunately, the...

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...