Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie follows a young woman who leaves her rural home for Chicago in search of a better life, only to be swept into a world of ambition, desire, and shifting morality. As Carrie rises through the ranks of city life—from factory worker to kept woman to stage actress—Dreiser explores the tensions between personal freedom and social convention in America’s rapidly modernizing landscape. The novel’s frank treatment of sexuality and economic survival was groundbreaking for its time.

Paperback, 1900s

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