Cary Grant

Author: Theodore Dreiser (USA)
Translator: Pan Qing
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The New York Herald Tribune and The Public Ledger of the United States called Sister Carrie a great American novel and referred to its author, Theodore Dreiser, as "Zola of America." Sister Carrie was regarded by the British public as "a true realist novel" and was praised by The Daily Mail as: "Finally, America has produced a truly bold novel." Nobel Prize laureate Louis said of Sister Carrie, "It is like a strong, free western wind sweeping across the sheltered, enclosed America. For the first time since Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, it has brought fresh air into our stuffy households." Sister Carrie opened the curtain on the golden age of American fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, and thus was hailed by critics as a historically significant milestone in American literature. Sister Carrie and Sister Julia were both included in the "Top 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" as ranked by The Modern Library in the United States.