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  2. Sister Carrie - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Carrie (1952 film) - Wikipedia

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    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. Eddie Albert played Charles Drouet.

  4. Theodore Dreiser - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Category:Novels by Theodore Dreiser - Wikipedia

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  6. Sister Carrie (opera) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Social novel - Wikipedia

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    Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (1900) is an influential example of Naturalism and a major American urban novel. Amongst other things it explores how industrialization affected the American people. Amongst other things it explores how industrialization affected the American people.

  8. Chicago literature - Wikipedia

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    Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) tells the tale of a country girl who leaves home to seek her fortune, first in Chicago and later in New York. Its descriptions of Chicago include a portrait of Loop department stores at the end of the nineteenth century.

  9. Carrie - Wikipedia

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    Carrie (1989 musical) Carrie; Carrie; the title character of Sister Carrie, a 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser Carrie, based on Dreiser's novel; one of the title characters of Carrie and Barry, a BBC sitcom; Carrie (band), British based rock music band "Carrie" (Cliff Richard song) (1980) "Carrie" (Europe song) (1987), by Europe