Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

Signet Classic, 2000 - Fiction - 489 pages

From the day of its troubled publication in 1900 to its inclusion in Modern Library's list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, Sister Carrie has been the source of controversy and debate. Regarded as the "first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement" (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature), this 100th Anniversary Edition of the classic includes additional material by the author and a new introduction by the definitive Dreiser biographer.

About the author

Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871. After a poor and difficult childhood, Dreiser broke into newspaper work in Chicago in 1892. A successful career as a magazine writer in New York during the late 1890s was followed by his first novel, Sister Carrie (1900). When this work made little impact, Dreiser published no fiction until Jennie Gerhardt in 1911. There then followed a decade and a half of major work in a number of literary forms, which was capped in 1925 by An American Tragedy, a novel that brought him universal acclaim. Dreiser was increasingly preoccupied by philosophical and political issues during the last two decades of his life. He died in Los Angeles on December 28, 1945.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sister Carrie; Signet Classics
• Author: Theodore Dreiser
• Contributor: Richard Lingeman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Signet Classic, 2000
• ISBN: 0451527607, 9780451527608
• Length: 489 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Women