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Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser is a tale about a young country girl who moves to the city to realize the American Dream, first as a mistress, and later becoming a famous actress. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

Sister Carrie is the first novel by an American writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser. The novel Sister Carrie told us about 18-year-old Caroline (Carrie) Meeber leaves her small native town Columbia city and goes to her older sister and her husband to Chicago. The city and relatives don’t meet her very kindly. With difficulty, she finds a hard and low paid job at a factory, but loses it because of the illness. It is hard to find a new place. The young woman stayed without money for a long time, but a young traveling salesman Drouet, whom she had met on the train, helped her.

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels. Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman, who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. They exchange contact information, but upon discovering the "steady round of toil" and somber atmosphere at her sister's flat, she writes to Drouet and discourages him from calling on her there.

When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister’s address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother’s farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken. - Taken from "Sister Carrie" written by Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie is the first novel by an American writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser. The novel Sister Carrie told us about 18-year-old Caroline (Carrie) Meeber leaves her small native town Columbia city and goes to her older sister and her husband to Chicago. The city and relatives don’t meet her very kindly. With difficulty, she finds a hard and low paid job at a factory, but loses it because of the illness. It is hard to find a new place. The young woman stayed without money for a long time, but a young traveling salesman Drouet, whom she had met on the train, helped her.

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