Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Public domain
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: C. M. Herbert
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Adults
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Release date: June 22, 2005 Duration: 16:54:46, When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face. Adrift in an indifferent city, she struggles from the sweatshop to stage success and inspires an obsessive love in a married man twice her agewhich threatens to destroy him., Dreiser transforms the conventional fallen-woman story into a genuinely original work of imaginative fiction. He hurls his impressionable eighteen-year-old heroine into the amoral world of the big city and reveals, with powerful insight, the driving forces of our culture: Americas restless idealism, glamorous material seductions, and spiritual innocence. Many consider this the greatest novel on urban life every written, A critical review Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreisers revolutionary first novel, was published in 19
