Cari Mame - Translation Famous Works Library (022)

Author: Dreiser
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: When Carol Mineau stepped onto the afternoon train bound for Chicago, her entire luggage consisted of a small suitcase checked with the baggage car, a crocodile leather handbag holding some toiletries, a small box of snacks, and a spring-loaded yellow wallet containing her train ticket, a note with her sister's address on Van Buren Street, and four dollars in cash. It was August in 1889. She was eighteen years old, clever, shy, and full of the various fantasies of an ignorant young woman. Regardless of what parting feelings she had in her heart, of course, it was not to abandon the many advantages of her hometown. Her mother kissed her goodbye, and it brought a wave of tears to her eyes. The train rumbled past the flour mill where her father worked during the day, making her throat choke slightly. The familiar green fields of the village disappeared before her, and she sighed sadly. And those gentle threads that gently tied her to her girlhood and hometown were irrevocably torn apart. In truth, she did not realize this at the time...