Title: Sister Carrie
Description: A groundbreaking book when it was first published, Sister Carrie is about a young woman who runs to the big city in search of adventure. She finds it aplenty, and her transgressions are numerous. This was one of the books that began the group of writers known as the Realists.
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Sister Carrie (Dreiser, Theodore), Literature, history and criticism
People: Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)