Celebrated Translations -- Carrie (Color Illustrations Edition) (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: Theodore Dreiser (USA), translated by Pan Qingling
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The American Herald Times and The Public Ledger called Sister Carrie a great American novel and referred to its author, Theodore Dreiser, as America's Zola. Sister Carrie was regarded by the British public as "a true realist novel" and was praised by The Daily Mail as: "America has finally 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, closed-off America. For the first time since Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, it has blown fresh air into our stuffy households." Sister Carrie marked the beginning of 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 was listed alongside Sister Julia as one of the "100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" as chosen by the American Modern Library.