by Theodore Dreiser · W. W. Norton & Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393960426
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«Sister Carrie» is the novel by Theodore Dreiser published by W. W. Norton & Company in paperback (580 pages) in the Norton Critical Editions series.
The novel follows Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old girl who leaves her hometown to try her luck in Chicago and then in New York. Settled at her sister's house and without resources, her story portrays the American dream, morality, and the price of social ascent in the big city.
This second edition, edited by Donald Pizer, reproduces the 1900 Doubleday Page text and includes sources, correspondence, and critical essays.
Volume aimed at the academic study of the novel and at the reader seeking critical and historical context.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best-known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
