![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is not a mere story, not a novel in the customary American meaning of the word it is at once a psalm of life and a criticism of life. It leaves behind an inescapable impression of bigness, of epic sweep and dignity. "Such a novel as Sister Carrie stands quite outside the brief traffic of the customary stage. Banned on publication for its questionable morals, Sister Carrie is the great American novel of seduction, a masterpiece of insight into appetite and innocence. Long before she was seduced by the cautious and ordinary man whose life she would unravel with no malice and only intermittent interest, the young Carrie Meeber was seduced by the promise of the city-its vitality and reckless possibility, the thrill of material luxury, and the spectacle of power and industry. ![]() If there is a modern movement in American prose writing, a movement toward greater courage and fidelity to life in writing, Theodore Dreiser is the pioneer and the hero of the movement."-Sherwood Anderson Among all of our prose writers he is one of the few men of whom it may be said that he has. Contributor(s): Dreiser, Theodore (Author), Delbanco, Andrew (Introduction by)Īnnotation: "Theodore Dreiser is a man who, with the passage of time, is bound to loom larger and larger in the awakening aesthetic consciousness of America. ![]()
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