Sister Kerry
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Sister Kerry
14.99 €
11.99 €
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber, whom everyone calls Kerry, comes from a small town to her relatives in Chicago. The girl is full of rainbow dreams and hopes, she wants to find her happiness in the big city. Despite the achieved success and prosperity, "the door, behind which lurks the full human happiness, has not opened for her". With extraordinary truthfulness, the author tells of her disappointments and experiences, the tragedy of the man who fell in love with her - once respectable and quite prosperous George Gerstwood.
"Sister Carrie" - the first novel by Theodore Dreiser, released at the turn of the century, in 1900. For world literature, this novel has become one of the symbols of American realism: with genuine veracity Dreiser paints a picture of a provincial actress seeking happiness in the big city ...
As the author himself will later say, in "Sister Carrie" and in the next, no less realistic novel "Jenny Gerhardt" he used events from the lives of his sisters. Critics in the early twentieth century accepted Dreiser's first works coolly, even hostilely. Although the fact that both books not only belong to the pen of the future author of "American Tragedy" and "The Financier", but still interesting to the reader, only confirms the bias and short-sightedness of those reactionary assessments.
"Sister Carrie" - the first novel by Theodore Dreiser, released at the turn of the century, in 1900. For world literature, this novel has become one of the symbols of American realism: with genuine veracity Dreiser paints a picture of a provincial actress seeking happiness in the big city ...
As the author himself will later say, in "Sister Carrie" and in the next, no less realistic novel "Jenny Gerhardt" he used events from the lives of his sisters. Critics in the early twentieth century accepted Dreiser's first works coolly, even hostilely. Although the fact that both books not only belong to the pen of the future author of "American Tragedy" and "The Financier", but still interesting to the reader, only confirms the bias and short-sightedness of those reactionary assessments.
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