Sister Carrie / Dreiser, Theodore

The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and goes to New York, and when her husband loses his job, goes onstage again; and includes historical context, explanatory notes, excerpts of criticism, discussion questions, and other study tools.

The classic American novel depicting an amoral young woman's rise to stardom as she brings about the decline of those closest to her.

Young Carrie Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.

Sister Carrie is an epic of urban life-the story of an innocent heroine adrift in the indifferent city.