Sister Carrie
By: by Theodore Dreiser; with a new foreword by the author
Series: The modern library of the world's best books
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
Subjects: Didactic fiction; Young women; Fiction; Mistresses; New York (N.Y.); Chicago (Ill.)
Description: The position of women in a success-oriented society is epitomized by the story of Caroline Meeber, who leaves her small Mid-western hometown in 1889 to start life anew in Chicago and later in New York. In her quest for riches she becomes a famous actress, only to realize that despite her material acquisitions happiness remains illusory.
Notes: From the library of Gore Vidal and Howard Austen, with Austen's autograph on half-title page.

Bound in publisher's gray cloth over boards; top edges stained green.