Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie is the first novel by an American writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser. 18-year-old Caroline (Carrie) Meeber leaves her small native town Columbia city and goes to her older sister and her husband to Chicago. The city and relatives don’t meet her very kindly. With difficulty, she finds a hard and low paid job at a factory, but loses it because of the illness. It is hard to find a new place. The young woman stayed without money for a long time, but a young traveling salesman Drouet, whom she had met on the train, helped her.

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