Introduction Chronology of Theodore Dreiser's Life and Work Historical Context ofSister Carrie | |
Sister Carrie | |
The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces | |
What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass | |
We Question of Fortune: Four-fifty a Week | |
The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers | |
A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name | |
The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of Today | |
The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself | |
Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned | |
Convention's Own Tinderbox: The Eye That Is Green | |
The Counsel of Winter: Fortune's Ambassador Calls | |
The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards o'er Its Own | |
Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador's Plea | |
His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues | |
With Eyes and Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes | |
The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth | |
A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World | |
A Glimpse through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye | |
Just over the Border: A Hail and Farewell | |
An Hour in Elf Land: A Clamor Half Heard | |
The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit | |
The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit | |
The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars With the Flesh | |
A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind | |
Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window | |
Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays | |
The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate | |
When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star | |
A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: The Spirit Detained | |
The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea | |
The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream | |
A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts Its Joys | |
The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate | |
Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years | |
The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff | |
The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care | |
A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance | |
The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate | |
In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without | |
Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds | |
A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal | |
The Strike | |
A Touch of Spring:The Empty Shell | |
The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark | |
And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy | |
Curious Shifts of the Poor | |
Stirring Troubled Waters | |
The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind Notes | |
Interpretive Notes | |
Critical Excerpts Questions for Discussion | |
Suggestions for the Interested Reader | |
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