Sister Carrie (Barnes & Noble Classics S - Theodore Dreiser [0]
From the Pages of Sister Carrie
Title Page
Copyright Page
Theodore Dreiser
The World of Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie
Introduction
A Note on Hotels, Homes, Restaurants, and the Theater
Dedication
CHAPTER I - THE MAGNET ATTRACTING: A WAIF AMID FORCES
CHAPTER II - WHAT POVERTY THREATENED: OF GRANITE AND BRASS
CHAPTER III - WE QUESTION OF FORTUNE: FOUR-FIFTY A WEEK
CHAPTER IV - THE SPENDINGS OF FANCY: FACTS ANSWER WITH SNEERS
CHAPTER V - A GLITTERING NIGHT FLOWER: THE USE OF A NAME
CHAPTER VI - THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN: A KNIGHT OF TO-DAY
CHAPTER VII - THE LURE OF THE MATERIAL: BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
CHAPTER VIII - INTIMATIONS BY WINTER: AN AMBASSADOR SUMMONED
CHAPTER IX - CONVENTION’S OWN TINDER-BOX: THE EYE THAT IS GREEN
CHAPTER X - THE COUNSEL OF WINTER: FORTUNE’S AMBASSADOR CALLS
CHAPTER XI - THE PERSUASION OF FASHION: FEELING GUARDS O’ER ITS OWN
CHAPTER XII - OF THE LAMPS OF THE MANSIONS: THE AMBASSADOR’S PLEA
CHAPTER XIII - HIS CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED: A BABEL OF TONGUES
CHAPTER XIV - WITH EYES AND NOT SEEING: ONE INFLUENCE WANES
CHAPTER XV - THE IRK OF THE OLD TIES: THE MAGIC OF YOUTH
CHAPTER XVI - A WITLESS ALADDIN: THE GATE TO THE WORLD
CHAPTER XVII - A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE GATEWAY: HOPE LIGHTENS THE EYE
CHAPTER XVIII - JUST OVER THE BORDER: A HAIL AND FAREWELL
CHAPTER XIX - AN HOUR IN ELFLAND: A CLAMOUR HALF HEARD
CHAPTER XX - THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT: THE FLESH IN PURSUIT
CHAPTER XXI - THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT: THE FLESH IN PURSUIT
CHAPTER XXII - THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER: FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESH
CHAPTER XXIII - A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL: ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND
CHAPTER XXIV - ASHES OF TINDER: A FACE AT THE WINDOW
CHAPTER XXV - ASHES OF TINDER: THE LOOSING OF STAYS
CHAPTER XXVI - THE AMBASSADOR FALLEN: A SEARCH FOR THE GATE
CHAPTER XXVII - WHEN WATERS ENGULF US WE REACH FOR A STAR
CHAPTER XXVIII - A PILGRIM, AN OUTLAW: THE SPIRIT DETAINED
CHAPTER XXIX - THE SOLACE OF TRAVEL: THE BOATS OF THE SEA
CHAPTER XXX - THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS: THE PILGRIM ADREAM
CHAPTER XXXI - A PET OF GOOD FORTUNE: BROADWAY FLAUNTS ITS JOYS
CHAPTER XXXII - THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR: A SEER TO TRANSLATE
CHAPTER XXXIII - WITHOUT THE WALLED CITY: THE SLOPE OF THE YEARS
CHAPTER XXXIV - THE GRIND OF THE MILLSTONES: A SAMPLE OF CHAFF
CHAPTER XXXV - THE PASSING OF EFFORT: THE VISAGE OF CARE
CHAPTER XXXVI - A GRIM RETROGRESSION: THE PHANTOM OF CHANCE
CHAPTER XXXVII - THE SPIRIT AWAKENS: NEW SEARCH FOR THE GATE
CHAPTER XXXVIII - IN ELFLAND DISPORTING: THE GRIM WORLD WITHOUT
CHAPTER XXXIX - OF LIGHTS AND OF SHADOWS: THE PARTING OF WORLDS
CHAPTER XL - A PUBLIC DISSENSION: A FINAL APPEAL
CHAPTER XLI - THE STRIKE
CHAPTER XLII - A TOUCH OF SPRING: THE EMPTY SHELL
CHAPTER XLIII - THE WORLD TURNS FLATTERER: AN EYE IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XLIV - AND THIS IS NOT ELFLAND: WHAT GOLD WILL NOT BUY
CHAPTER XLV - CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POOR
CHAPTER XLVI - STIRRING TROUBLED WATERS
CHAPTER XLVII - THE WAY OF THE BEATEN: A HARP IN THE WIND
Endnotes
Inspired by Sister Carrie
Comments and Questions
For Further Reading
From the Pages of Sister Carrie
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility.
(page 3)
To Carrie, the one relief of the whole day would have been a jolly home, a sympathetic reception, a bright supper table, and some one to say: “Oh, well, stand it a little while. You will get something better,” but now this was ashes.
(page 47)
Here, then, was Carrie, established in a pleasant fashion, free of certain difficulties which most ominously confronted her, laden with many new ones which were of a mental order, and altogether so turned about in all of her earthly relationships that she might well have been a new and different individual. She looked into her glass and saw a prettier Carrie than she had seen before; she looked into her mind,