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Title: Sister Carrie
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Release Date: December 13, 2011 [EBook #5267]
Language: English
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SISTER CARRIE
image of the book's cover
[A hand-writted note, transcribed below, appeared on the first page of this copy of the book. The etext transcriber cannot attest to its authenticity.]
My Dear Mr. Norris:
Owing as I do so very much to your earliest and most unqualified approval of this story in manuscript form it is my determination to inscribe a copy to you whether you will or no. That it reaches either you or the public "under cover" so soon is due entirely to you. Therefore refuse not a corner on the family table to the off-spring you so generously fostered; neither attempt to deny in the future that your sins do find you out.
With the most grateful remembrances I am,
Sincerely yours
Dreiser
Sister Carrie
By
Theodore Dreiser
colophon
NEW YORK
Doubleday, Page & Co.
1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
TO MY FRIEND
ARTHUR HENRY
WHOSE STEADFAST IDEALS AND SERENE
DEVOTION TO TRUTH AND BEAUTY
HAVE SERVED TO LIGHTEN THE METHOD
AND STRENGTHEN THE PURPOSE OF
THIS VOLUME.
SISTER CARRIE
| Chapter I. | The Magnet Attracting—A Waif Amid Forces |
| II. | What Poverty Threatened—Of Granite And Brass |
| III. | We Question of Fortune—Four-fifty a Week |
| IV. | The Spendings of Fancy—Facts Answer With Sneers |
| V. | A Glittering Night Flower—The Use of a Name |
| VI. | The Machine And The Maiden—A Knight of To-day |
| VII. | The Lure of the Material—Beauty Speaks for Itself |
| VIII. | Intimations By Winter—An Ambassador Summoned |
| IX. | Convention's Own Tinder-box—The Eye That Is Green |
| X. | The Counsel of Winter—Fortune's Ambassador Calls |
| XI. | The Persuasion of Fashion—Feeling Guards O'er Its Own |
| XII. | Of the Lamps of the Mansions—The Ambassador Plea |
| XIII. | His Credentials Accepted—A Babel of Tongues |
| XIV. | With Eyes and Not Seeing—One Influence Wanes |
| XV. | The Irk of the Old Ties—The Magic of Youth |
| XVI. | A Witless Aladdin—The Gate To the World |
| XVII. | A Glimpse Through the Gateway—Hope Lightens the Eye |
| XVIII. | Just Over the Border—A Hail And Farewell |
| XIX. | An Hour In Elfland—A Clamour Half Heard |
| XX. | The Lure of the Spirit—The Flesh In Pursuit |
| XXI. | The Lure of the Spirit—The Flesh In Pursuit |
| XXII. | The Blaze of the Tinder—Flesh Wars With the Flesh |
| XXIII. | A Spirit In Travail—One Rung Put Behind |
| XXIV. | Ashes of Tinder—A Face At the Window |
| XXV. | Ashes of Tinder—The Loosing of Stays |