SUMMARY: This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle-from sweatshop to stage success-and of the love she inspires in an older, married man w
Sister Carrie
โ Scribed by Theodore Dreiser
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Classics
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 770 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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