02010cam a2200325 i 4500 2233400930 TxAuBib 20250514120000.0 210325s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593314883 0593314883 TxAuBib rda Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, author. Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser. First Vintage classics edition. New York : Vintage Classics, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. ix, 451 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published by Doubleday in 1900. Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin life, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber moves to Chicago to live with her sister and work in a shoe factory. It doesn't take long for her to realize that factory work is hard and dirty. After becoming ill and losing her job, Carrie is taken in by a rich, handsome man who pays for her apartment and finds her work as an actress. But Carrie soon finds another man to take care of her, who happens to be married and a criminal. Sister Carrie was originally rejected by publishers for being too sordid. Dreiser fought against censorship of Sister Carrie, which went against social and moral norms of the time. It wasn't until 1981 when the University of Pennsylvania Press issued a scholarly edition that Sister Carrie started gaining popularity. The novel remains an influential example of naturalism and realism and is now considered one of the great American urban novels. 20250519. Young women Fiction. Actresses Fiction. Mistresses Fiction. New York (N.Y.) Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) Fiction. Didactic fiction.