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A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie. Sister Carrie is a 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous ...
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (/ ˈ d r aɪ s ər,-z ər /; [1] August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. [2]
Carrie is a 1952 American drama film based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Directed by William Wyler , the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood.
An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser.He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette.
The Trilogy of Desire is a series of three novels by Theodore Dreiser: The Financier (1912) The Titan (1914) The Stoic (1947) The protagonist of the trilogy, Frank Algernon Cowperwood, was modeled after financier Charles Yerkes. The novels narrate his rise and fall through an unscrupulous, self-centered quest for power and wealth.
Pages in category "Novels by Theodore Dreiser" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Sister Carrie; The Stoic; T. The Titan (novel)
Sister Carrie is an opera by Robert Livingstone Aldridge to a libretto by Herschel Garfein based upon Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel of the same name about a country girl's pursuit of the American Dream. The opera premiered in Milwaukee by Florentine Opera on October 7, 2016. [1]
Theodore Dreiser – Sister Carrie; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman – The Heart's Highway; Robert Grant – Unleavened Bread; Thomas Anstey Guthrie – The Brass Bottle; Maurice Hewlett – The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay [8] Jerome K. Jerome – Three Men on the Bummel