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Title details for Sister Carrie, with eBook by Theodore Dreiser - Available

Sister Carrie, with eBook

by Theodore Dreiser
Rebecca Burns
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Alone in the city, a young woman meets a man who promises to make her dreams come true. Eighteen-year-old Carrie is drawn to the glamour, wealth, and excitement of Chicago. But to be part of this glittering world, she will need much more money than she can even imagine. The only jobs she can find offer harsh conditions and little pay. Finally, inexperienced and desperate, she allows the smooth-talking salesman Charles Drouet to buy her meals and pretty clothes. Will Carrie ever find true happiness? And how much will she have to give up to get what she wants?


Theodore Dreiser's unsparing story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's objective, nonmoralizing approach made it highly controversial, and only a heavily edited version could be published in 1900.

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  • Release date

    January 26, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400129058
      • File size: 529321 KB
      • Duration: 18:22:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 980
    • Text Difficulty: 5-7

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Dreiser's first novel was suppressed for its relatively amoral depiction of a golddigger's rise and the concomitant fall of her lover. The book remains interesting for its historical importance, period detail and sinewy depiction of the big-shouldered city in the 1890's. At 500 pages, it's a lot to swallow in the dry Books on Tape house style of narration. Given that limitation--or virtue, to some ears--Rebecca Burns plays for clarity, enunciating crisply and phrasing precisely. She succeeds so well that this reviewer found himself more attentive to her narration than to either the original book or the sanitized film version with Lawrence Olivier. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:980
  • Text Difficulty:5-7

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