Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
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Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Language
eng
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libretto or text
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fiction
Main title
Sister Carrie
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electronic resource
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Oclc number
70687177
Responsibility statement
Theodore Dreiser
Summary
The novel tells the story of Carrie Meeber, a Midwestern country girl who moves to Chicago. She meets a salesman, Charles Rouet, and after a period of unemployment becomes his mistress. Soon, however, she becomes disillusioned with him and takes up with his friend George Hurstwood, a middle-aged, married restaurant manager. He embezzles money and elopes with Carrie to New York, where he opens a saloon which fails. Their liaison continues for some three years, until Carrie is forced by their impoverishment to work as a chorus girl to support them. Though she makes an impression in a small part and begins what is to become a successful career, she fails to find happiness
Target audience
general
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