Famous Translations -- The Girl from Jonesville (Color Illustrations Edition) (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: Theodore Dreiser (USA), translated by Pan Qingling
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book is part of the "World Classics Library," a fully translated and illustrated edition. The novel Sister Carrie is a work by the highly controversial American author Theodore Dreiser. This writer, who insisted that "life is tragedy," depicts the love between a poor girl, Carrie, and a wealthy young man, Charles Drouet, and later her lonely death in the novel. The structure and plot arrangement of the work are ingeniously crafted, showcasing distinct artistic features and possessing high artistic value. It is often referred to as the sister novel to Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900). Both Sister Carrie and Sister Carrie (both works by Dreiser) were included in the "100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" selected by the Modern Library. Renowned critic James Huneker called Sister Carrie a great novel, reminding him of Russia's greatest works, and praised it for powerfully portraying human nature. Dreiser was one of the most outstanding realist writers of the 20th century in America and a pioneer of American naturalism. He was hailed as another realist master after Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. Media outlets such as the Pioneer Times and the Interior Affairs regarded Dreiser as America's Zola. American critics ranked him alongside Hemingway and Faulkner as one of the three giants of American modern fiction.