Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Sister CarrieTheodore Dreiser · 1900Carrie Meeber's rise in Chicago and New York. Read Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser page by page and explore its network of 590 people, places and things.When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister’s address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother’s…All books in the ECCE gallery