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Title: Sister Carrie (Oxford World's Classics) by Theodore Dreiser, Lee Clark Mitchell ISBN: 0-19-283574-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (85 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT
Comment: This book was incredible....Page by page, you go thru life with Carrie..I think at one point or another we have all had feelings of "wow" when seeing the exclusive lifestyles of the upper class..However we do not realize at that moment that money does not buy happiness...Carrie not only had those feelings but she was completely obsessed with it...The main morals of the story in this book is "things are not what they seem" , "the grass is not always greener on the other side" , and "money does not buy happiness"...We also see what circumstances Hurstwood finds himself in after he leaves his family for a "young lust"....In Sister Carrie we see how it is to go up the social ladder as well as to go down...and neither is a journey worth traveling ! I would have liked to read more about Carrie's family back home and Hurstwood's abandoned family.... This book was incredible......Dreiser is a GREAT GREAT writer, there were some lines that I reread 2-3 times because i was so touched by his writing... Read this book !
Rating: 4
Summary: A Classic of American Naturalism
Comment: Wow. I can't believe how many reviews have been written about this book!
I would recommend this book to people interested in the concept of the city. Although its notoriety stems from its "naturalistic" depiction of the characters, I thought it was the depcition of the urban environment of Chicago and New York which stood out.
While the intertwined fates of Carrie, Drouet and Hurstwood occupy the foreground of this book, I found myself consistently drawn to the back ground.
Since Dreiser came up as a newspaperman, this makes a certain amount of sense.
The details that Dreiser includes about the day-to-day life in the big city at the turn of the century were worth the price of admission, so to speak. The plot of the novel, concerning Carrie and her rise and fall and rise, was less notable, as far as I'm concerned.
This is not a short book, and some of the economic turmoil suffered by the characters tapped in to a larger well spring of fear and anxiety about social status that many Americans(including myself) share.
While not what I would call a "fun" read, it is fairly light, and certainly worthwhile.
Rating: 5
Summary: surprisingly engaging and fascinating
Comment: Sister Carrie is a lovely book. It tells a rather profound story--placed specifically in its time, which was of course the 'Modern Day' for the time it was written. As a result a book that was once a critical document of patterns of behavior of some of the author's contemporaries has become, for better or worse, an important historical chronical of the dangers of selfishness and uninhibited personal ambition. Oh, the story is no longer anything unfamiliar, but the grounding and the character studies make this book very affecting and, true to the ideals of its unfortunate literary designation of 'Naturalism' (a meaningless term which limits instead of explains a readers' expectation, much in the way that science-fiction or horror classify something as not necessisarily what it in fact is), this is a very believable and realistic story.
The writing itself, as other readers and critics throughout the past one hundred years or so have repeated when attempting to find fault with Sister Carrie, isn't the most impressive thing about the book. However, in its defense, the cut and dry, occasionally pasted on moments of philosophical conversation and the rugged and perhaps at times inconsistant speech patterns of the various characters somehow, for me, created an even more believable picture, zoning in on those people who attempt to speak both above and beneath their social class and educational backgrounds for either personal gain or in a futile effort to 'fit in'.
A wonderful book, because of its flaws, in fact, that reads like a quick-paced and absorbing tale always on the verge of tragedy. That tension, that what-will-happen-next feeling pervades throughout the book and concludes by providing quite an impact indeed.
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Title: An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Theodore Dreiser ISBN: 0451527704 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The House of Mirth (Signet Classics (Paperback)) by Edith Wharton ISBN: 0451527569 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris, Eric Solomon ISBN: 0451528913 Publisher: Signet Classics Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Rise of Silas Lapham (The Penguin American Library) by William Dean Howells ISBN: 0140390308 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Native Son (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright ISBN: 0060929804 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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