Sister Carrie - A Classic American Novel of Ambition, Desire, and the Search for Success
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.04.2011
Verlag
Smk BooksSeitenzahl
426
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.6 cm
Gewicht
688 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-61720-147-9
Sister Carrie (1900) is Theodore Dreiser's landmark American novel of urban ambition, desire, and social gravity, following young Caroline "Carrie" Meeber from small-town Wisconsin into the modern cities of Chicago and New York. Arriving with little money and few protections, Carrie is drawn into a world where comfort, status, and opportunity seem inseparable from the men who can provide them-and where the marketplace shapes not only labour but feeling, conscience, and self-regard. Dreiser's unsentimental realism traces how quickly want becomes habit, and how swiftly moral certainty yields to circumstance. Interwoven with Carrie's ascent is the slow unraveling of George Hurstwood, a respectable manager whose infatuation triggers a chain of choices that end in dislocation and decline. Without sermonising, Dreiser presents success and failure as outcomes of environment, appetite, and chance as much as character, producing one of the earliest and most enduring portraits of American city life and the costs hidden inside the "American Dream."
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