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Sister Carrie

By Theodore Dreiser, Rebecca Burns (Reader)

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| Audio CD | 9781400102709

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Book Description

The driving forces of our culture -- restless idealism, glamorous material seductions and spiritual innocence -- are revealed in Dreiser's transformation of the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely original work of imaginative fiction.

Critics

Lyrical Dreiser

“In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “somebody is always at the drowning-point.” It was not the deprivation of the poor that interested Hawthorne, but rather the fall of those born hi ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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Oh, the half-hours, the minutes of the world; what miseries and griefs are crowded into them!

'The world is always struggling to express itself', he went on. 'Most people are not capable of voicing their feelings. They depend upon others. That is what genius is for. One man expresses their desires for them in music; another one in poetry; another one in a play. Sometimes nature does it in a ... (continue)

'The world is always struggling to express itself', he went on. 'Most people are not capable of voicing their feelings. They depend upon others. That is what genius is for. One man expresses their desires for them in music; another one in poetry; another one in a play. Sometimes nature does it in a face - it makes the face representative of all desires. That's what has happened in you case'

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Ness ʚϊɞ said on Mar 3, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

Was my all-time favourite novel for years, and is probably over-ripe for a re-read.

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sid_rw said on Jul 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback