| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (1020 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Norton critical edition.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Laurel Lefkow. |
| Summary |
A magnificent portrayal of 1890s America and the harsh realities of a dog-eat-dog world, Sister Carrie lies at the forefront of American Naturalism. When poor young provincial woman Carrie Meeber arrives in Chicago, she little expects to be catapulted from lower-class woman to prominent Broadway actress. Passive and yielding, she lets circumstances coerce her into action and by good fortune she arrives at fame. It is in Chicago that Carrie meets a successful businessman, Hurstwood, who helps her establish her name. Gripped by a strong attraction to Carrie, Hurstwood ends his marriage and moves with her to New York. Their relationship soon ends and, like a fish out of water, Hurstwood finds himself vagrant and destitute on the streets of an unfamiliar city, a poignant counterpoint to Carrie's rapid rise. Frank, evocative and compelling, Sister Carrie gives us a version of the American dream with a gritty and unattractive reality. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Sister Carrie.
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Actresses -- Fiction.
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Mistresses -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Didactic fiction.
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| Added Author |
Pizer, Donald, editor.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781781981290 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781981299 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12058215 |
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