Sister Carrie

By Frederick J. Balling

Subjects: Nonfiction, Sister Carrie (Dreiser, Theodore), General, Literary Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, Literature, history and criticism

Description: A groundbreaking book when it was first published, Sister Carrie is about a young woman who runs to the big city in search of adventure. She finds it aplenty, and her transgressions are numerous. This was one of the books that began the group of writers known as the Realists.