Sister Carrie
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| 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 by first becoming a mistress to powerful men and later as a famous actress.— Excerpted from Sister Carrie on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
- 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 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 a Dream
- 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 Elf Land 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 Elf Land: 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
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