Sister Carrie

American  

noun

1. a novel (1900) by Theodore Dreiser.

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Example Sentences

But her approval of then-risque fare like Theodore Dreiser’s “Sister Carrie” got her tut-tutted by editors.

From Los Angeles Times

He told TMZ: "It's heartbreaking and shocking to me that I was intentionally omitted from attending this important legacy event for my sister, Carrie."

From BBC

Yet Lewis’s Babbitt is, finally, a man we care about — a character rather than a caricature — one of a small group of American fictional creations who, in the early years of the 20th century, stand in their very different ways as landmarks in the story of the social evolution of our country: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Wharton’s Lily Bart, Booth Tarkington’s Alice Adams, with Gatsby on the horizon.

From New York Times

I was as thrilled by it as Mencken said he was upon first reading Dreiser’s colossal “Sister Carrie.”

From New York Times

Theodore Dreiser’s frankly realistic story called “Sister Carrie,” originally published seven years ago, is now republished by Messrs. B.W.

From New York Times