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
- Penguin Group;Barnes & Noble Classics
- Year
- 2009;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 321 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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 whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.
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When small-town Carrie arrives in 1890s Chicago, she cannot know what awaits. Callow beautiful, and alone, she experiences the bitterness of temptation and hardship even as she sets her sights on a better life.
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