Sister Carrie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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And so 20th century, too: Have you met Sister Carrie?
From New York Times • May 23, 2017
Heartbreaks in high school were softened by Jane Austen’s wit and by the greater tragedies in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
From Newsweek • Feb. 14, 2015
Theodore Dreiser, considered one of America's great realist novelists for "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy," lived his last years in Los Angeles and is buried at Forest Lawn in Glendale.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2014
Back then Chicago had "developed an image as a cold, capitalistic city where people buy their way to power," a portrait helped along by Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle."
From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 22, 2011
I read Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt and Sister Carrie and they revived in me a vivid sense of my mother’s suffering; I was overwhelmed.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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