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Availability:In StockContributor:Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Kazin (Introduction by), John C. Berkey (Editor)Series:Penguin Twentieth-Century ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1994-08-01Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140188288ISBN-10:140188282UPC:9780140188288Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Urban & Street LitSize:7.77 x 5.08 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCKME7VV13
"When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse." With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser transformed the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely innovative and powerful work of fiction. As he hurled his...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140188288ISBN-10:140188282UPC:9780140188288Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Urban & Street LitSize:7.77 x 5.08 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCKME7VV13
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. After a poor and difficult childhood, Dreiser broke into newspaper work in Chicago in 1892. A successful career as a magazine writer in New York during the late 1890s was followed by his first novel, Sister Carrie (1900). When this work made little impact, Dreiser published no fiction until Jennie Gerhardt in 1911. There then followed...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Kazin (Introduction by), John C. Berkey (Editor)
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