Sister Carrie: A Suppressed Literature Classic! - Softcover
Suppressed Classic! Published in 1900 - suppressed until 1912. The story of a rudderless but pretty small-town girl who comes to the big city filled with vague ambitions. She is used by men and uses them in turn to become a successful Broadway actress, while George, the married man who has run away with her, loses his grip on life and descends into beggary and suicide. The first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement in its gritty factual presentation of the vagaries of urban life and in its ingenuous heroine, who goes unpunished for her transgressions against conventional sexual morality. The book's strengths include a brooding but compassionate view of humanity, a memorable cast of characters, and a compelling narrative. The emotional disintegration of George is a much-praised triumph of psychological analysis. A work of pivotal importance in American literature, and it became a model for subsequent writers of realism. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1449523056
- ISBN 13 9781449523053
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages446
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