Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, Sister Carrie, the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and glittering fame as an actress. With Sister Carrie, the original manuscript of which is in the New York Public Library collections, Dreiser told a tale not "sufficiently delicate" for many of its first readers and critics, but which is now universally recognized as one of the greatest and most influential American novels.

Sister Carrie: New York Public Library Collector's Edition (New York Public Library Collector's Editions)

Drieser, Theodore

Romance

DOUBLEDAY

Motivated by affection and a desire to help her family escape crushing poverty, Jennie Gerhardt submits to two wealthy men, in the classic work by the author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. Reprint.

Jennie Gerhardt

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Bantam Classics

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