Jean Girl (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: Theodore Dreiser (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book is part of the "World Classics Library," a full translation with illustrations. The novel "Sister Carrie" is the work of the highly controversial American writer Theodore Dreiser. This writer, who insisted that "life is tragedy," depicts in the novel the love between the poor girl Carrie and the wealthy young man Charles Drouet, and her eventual lonely death. The structure and plot arrangement of the work are uniquely ingenious, with distinct artistic characteristics and high artistic value. It is called 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 in the United States. Renowned critic James Huneker called "Sister Carrie" a great novel, reminding him of Russia's greatest works, and praised the novel for powerfully portraying human nature. Dreiser was one of the most outstanding realist writers of the 20th century in America and a pioneer of naturalism in American literature. He was known as another realist master after Walt Whitman and Mark Twain. The media such as The New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times regarded Dreiser as America's Zola. American critics ranked him alongside Hemingway and Faulkner as one of the three giants of modern American fiction.