Sister Carrie
dc.contributor | Eris, Project |
dc.contributor.author | Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T15:15:13Z |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T15:15:13Z |
dc.date.created | 1900 |
dc.date.issued | 1994-01-12 |
dc.identifier | ota:2013 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2013 |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.title | Sister Carrie |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 883696 |
files.count | 1 |
otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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1900 SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I. THE MAGNET ATTRACTING: A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the villag . . .