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Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Edition) » (3rd Edition)

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Authors: Theodore Dreiser, Donald Pizer
ISBN-13: 9780393927733, ISBN-10: 0393927733
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: 3rd Edition

Author Biography: Theodore Dreiser

Donald Pizer is Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University. He is the author of The Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism, and The Novels of Frank Norris, among others.

Book Synopsis

The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailed annotations that reveal the author’s use of real people and places in Chicago and New York.

New York Times Book Review

We do not recommend the book to the fastidious reader, or the one who clings to old-fashioned ideas. It is a book one can very well do without reading. -- Books of the Century; New York Times review, May 1907

I.	The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces	1
II.	What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass	8
III.	Wee Question of Fortune: Four-Fifty a Week	12
IV.	The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers	20
V.	A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name	30
VI.	The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of To-day	35
VII.	The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself	45
VIII.	Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned	53
IX.	Convention's Own Tinder-box: The Eye That Is Green	59
X.	The Counsel of Winter: Fortune's Ambassador Calls	64
XI.	The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards O'er Its Own	71
XII.	Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador's Plea	78
XIII.	His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues	85
XIV.	With Eyes and Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes	92
XV.	The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth	98
XVI.	A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World	107
XVII.	A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye	113
XVIII.	Just Over the Border: A Hail and Farewell	120
XIX.	An Hour in Elfland: A Clamour Half Heard	124
XX.	The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit	134
XXI.	The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit	141
XXII.	The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars with the Flesh	144
XXIII.	A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind	153
XXIV.	Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window	162
XXV.	Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays	165
XXVI.	The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate	169
XXVII.	When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star	178
XXVIII.	A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: The Spirit Detained	186
XXIX.	The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea	194
XXX.	The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream	204
XXXI.	A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts Its Joys	210
XXXII.	The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate	217
XXXIII.	Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years	228
XXXIV.	The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff	234
XXXV.	The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care	241
XXXVI.	A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance	249
XXXVII.	The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate	257
XXXVIII.	In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without	263
XXXIX.	Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds	271
XL.	A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal	280
XLI.	The Strike	286
XLII.	A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell	299
XLIII.	The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark	306
XLIV.	And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy	313
XLV.	Curious Shifts of the Poor	320
XLVI.	Stirring Troubled Waters	331
XLVII.	The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind	340

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