--- product_id: 512109564 title: "Sister Carrie" price: "€ 25.00" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.es/products/512109564-sister-carrie store_origin: ES region: Spain --- # Sister Carrie **Price:** € 25.00 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Sister Carrie - **How much does it cost?** € 25.00 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.es](https://www.desertcart.es/products/512109564-sister-carrie) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Theodore Dreiser's classic tale of Caroline Meeber ("Sister Carrie"), a young woman from Columbia City, Wisconsin who moves to Chicago. Starting her new life in the big city, Carrie finds romance and fame as an actress as she pursues her American Dream. A best-seller in its time, Sister Carrie is recognized as a important example of the "American urban novel," and possibly the greatest such novel. Review: Karma! - It proves that young Carrie in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a beautiful but cold and unfeeling woman in her dealings with others. She moves to Chicago in the early 1900’s to find work and has come from nearby Wisconsin. She briefly lives with her sister, brother-in-law and their child. She looks for work for several days and ends up in working as a seamstress but finds the work too strenuous and ends up moving in with the well-dressed Charlie Drouet, a traveling salesman. He buys her nice things and continually promises to marry her. She starts acting and her worth shines through and he sees her in a new light. So does the suave George Hurstswood, the manager of a local high-end pub. When Charlie is traveling, she and George start meeting at the park. She does not know that he is an unhappily married man whose wife controls the purse strings. In Carrie’s presence, he feels more like a man and less like a child, so he hotly pursues her not admitting that he is a married man. He even tricks her into taking a train trip with him. She thinks that they are going to see about an injured Charlie but, they are on their way to Detroit. She also does not know that he has stolen thousands of dollars from his employer. Detectives find him and get most of the money back and they go on to New York. He is almost broke and soon Carrie not only finds work but ends up being the breadwinner. She gets back on the stage and finds her way as she ascends the ladder. He slowly but assuredly descends into further despair and cannot find work. She finally leaves him and makes it big on the stage. She later runs into Charlie Drouet and he has continually done will for himself. However, poor George has become a homeless man who is reduced to a scruffy beggar. On one occasion, Carrie sees him and gives him about $2.00 though she is living at an exclusive hotel. His struggles are dark and heart-wrenching as he fades into obscurity while she becomes richer yet lonelier. What will become of them? Read this timeless piece and see how happens to Carrie and George! Review: I liked it, I really liked it - I tried reading this as an e-book but couldn't slog it. So I bought it as "Sister Carrie: New York Public Library Collector's Edition" for a few dollars and that made a world of diffference. I didn't fight the medium to get to the massage. No typos. Easy-on-the-eyes page. Extra stuff thrown in from the Library's collection of Drieser attic. And they say the text is one that wasn't censored or softened by the fearful folks of the day. Oh yes, the story is compelling too, and has Sex and Unemployment. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #665,473 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,263 in Classic Literature & Fiction #3,244 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 1,037 Reviews | ## Images ![Sister Carrie - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Vph-r7+DL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Karma! *by L***. on June 12, 2019* It proves that young Carrie in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie is a beautiful but cold and unfeeling woman in her dealings with others. She moves to Chicago in the early 1900’s to find work and has come from nearby Wisconsin. She briefly lives with her sister, brother-in-law and their child. She looks for work for several days and ends up in working as a seamstress but finds the work too strenuous and ends up moving in with the well-dressed Charlie Drouet, a traveling salesman. He buys her nice things and continually promises to marry her. She starts acting and her worth shines through and he sees her in a new light. So does the suave George Hurstswood, the manager of a local high-end pub. When Charlie is traveling, she and George start meeting at the park. She does not know that he is an unhappily married man whose wife controls the purse strings. In Carrie’s presence, he feels more like a man and less like a child, so he hotly pursues her not admitting that he is a married man. He even tricks her into taking a train trip with him. She thinks that they are going to see about an injured Charlie but, they are on their way to Detroit. She also does not know that he has stolen thousands of dollars from his employer. Detectives find him and get most of the money back and they go on to New York. He is almost broke and soon Carrie not only finds work but ends up being the breadwinner. She gets back on the stage and finds her way as she ascends the ladder. He slowly but assuredly descends into further despair and cannot find work. She finally leaves him and makes it big on the stage. She later runs into Charlie Drouet and he has continually done will for himself. However, poor George has become a homeless man who is reduced to a scruffy beggar. On one occasion, Carrie sees him and gives him about $2.00 though she is living at an exclusive hotel. His struggles are dark and heart-wrenching as he fades into obscurity while she becomes richer yet lonelier. What will become of them? Read this timeless piece and see how happens to Carrie and George! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I liked it, I really liked it *by T***Y on March 24, 2014* I tried reading this as an e-book but couldn't slog it. So I bought it as "Sister Carrie: New York Public Library Collector's Edition" for a few dollars and that made a world of diffference. I didn't fight the medium to get to the massage. No typos. Easy-on-the-eyes page. Extra stuff thrown in from the Library's collection of Drieser attic. And they say the text is one that wasn't censored or softened by the fearful folks of the day. Oh yes, the story is compelling too, and has Sex and Unemployment. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Vicissitudes of Life... *by J***I on July 16, 2012* Theodore Dreiser, an American novelist of the "naturalist school" published this, his first novel, in 1900, to limited acclaim. The wife of the publisher, Mrs. Doubleday, was adamantly opposed to its publication since, in her opinion, "immorality," by which she means, Carrie's relationship with men, was not clearly punished. At the end of my "Barnes & Noble Classics" copy, there is a spot-on retort from a review in the "San Francisco Argonaut": "But these critics will have little to say in condemnation of the immorality of a commercial system which offers young girls a wage of three or four dollars a week in payment for labor as destructive to the mind as to the body." As with numerous other American novelists, their merit was first recognized in Europe, and then reflected back to the States. The novel was re-issued in 1907, to a much more receptive public. Dreiser grew up in Indiana, and went to Chicago as a newspaperman. The principal character, Carrie, is based on his sister, who, in the novel, went from Wisconsin to Chicago. Though re-issued in the same year that Upton Sinclair published his famous muck-raking novel The Jungle , also set in Chicago, Dreiser's novel is actually set in the 1880's - `90's. In terms of the social classes, the two novels both complement and contrast the classes depicted, and there is a dash of some social mobility thrown in. Carrie is a classic country girl, fleeing a big family, for the lights of the big city. On the train to Chicago she meets Drouet, a smooth-talking salesman. Carrie's domestic situation, living with her sister and brother-in-law is not a happy one, and she soon takes up "domestic arrangements" with Drouet. And in the much more sedate time of what was the Victorian era in England, that is all you learn: the panting, puffing and groping are all carefully excised. Hurstwood, a married man of some property, and limited propriety, and an erstwhile friend of Drouet, also takes an unseeming interest in Carrie, which borders on Maugham's Of Human Bondage . With this essential dynamic, the novel is propelled forward, with the inevitable vicissitudes in the human interactions as well as the social standing of the main characters. Roughly half the novel is set in New York City, so the reader gains an appreciation of the two largest American cities in the post-Civil War period, an event that is never mentioned. "Naturalism" means a realistic account life in the aforementioned cities. No "stream of consciousness" or other innovative story-telling techniques. Just a straightforward story, an easy read. I felt that the characterizations of the men, both Drouet and Hurstwood, seemed to be more insightful. Carrie is depicted as a strong women, with an independent streak, but she is also simply swept along by events, and her motivation at times is difficult to understand. The economics of the times is also realistically portrayed, including the grinding poverty that was the fate of most. Unemployment, underemployment, many of the same themes that dominant today's economy were highly operative then. Carrie "made it," at least in terms of achieving success as an actress, but as Dreiser said, in terms of her relationship to Hurstwood: "She forgot her youth and her beauty. The handicap of age she did not, in her enthusiasm, perceive." She achieved "success," but not happiness. But that was not enough for Mrs. Doubleday, even though Dreiser says: "It is but natural that when the world which they represented no longer allured her, its ambassadors should be discredited...In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel." Regrettably, this is the first novel of Dreiser's that I have read. His other major work, published a quarter century later, An American Tragedy is now on the "to-read list." In terms of the characters, and the setting, it is an important American novel, relevant both then, and in our own troubled economic times. 5-stars. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.es/products/512109564-sister-carrie](https://www.desertcart.es/products/512109564-sister-carrie) --- *Product available on Desertcart Spain* *Store origin: ES* *Last updated: 2026-05-31*