- American fiction (fictional works by one author), Chicago (ill.), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, action & adventure
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Theodore Dreiser
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 450
- Publisher
- AD Classic, W.W. Norton, giulio einaudi
- Editions
- 463
- Language
- Spanish, nor, hun, und
- ISBN
- 9781722334628
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“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.”
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( 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] Dreiser's best-known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
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