Cari Mame (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: Theodore Dreiser (USA)
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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, 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: "America has finally produced a truly bold novel." Nobel Prize winner 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 Whitman, it has brought 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 included alongside Sister Julia in the "Top 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" as ranked by The Modern Library. Dreiser was one of the most outstanding realist writers of the 20th century in the United States, alongside Hemingway and Faulkner, and is known as one of the three giants of modern American fiction.