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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.
Nearing's Sister Carrie, a free-form adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel of the same name, premiered with a live orchestral score at Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center in December 2022. [14] Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune described it as "a cinematic riff that goes its own way in search of everything Carrie wanted: truth, beauty ...
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 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.
Brander Matthews was a prolific and varied writer, author of more than thirty books. The claim to fame of one of his plays is its mention in Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie: it is the melodrama, A Gold Mine, which the character Carrie attends and which causes her to consider a drama career. Some of his surveys of American literature and ...
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