Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Theodore Dreiser

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Название Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Автор произведения Theodore Dreiser
Жанр Биология
Серия Clementine Classics
Издательство Биология
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isbn 9781936787104



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       Clementine Classics:

       Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

      Annotated by

      Clementine the Hedgehog

      Black Balloon Publishing

      New York

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      CONTENTS

      Chapter 13 HIS CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED—A BABEL OF TONGUES

      Chapter 14 WITH EYES AND NOT SEEING—ONE INFLUENCE WANES

      Chapter 15 THE IRK OF THE OLD TIES—THE MAGIC OF YOUTH

      Chapter 16 A WITLESS ALADDIN—THE GATE TO THE WORLD

      Chapter 17 A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE GATEWAY—HOPE LIGHTENS THE EYE

      Chapter 18 JUST OVER THE BORDER—A HAIL AND FAREWELL

      Chapter 19 AN HOUR IN ELFLAND—A CLAMOR HALF HEARD

      Chapter 20 THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT—THE FLESH IN PURSUIT

      Chapter 21 THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT—THE FLESH IN PURSUIT

      Chapter 22 THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER—FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESH

      Chapter 23 A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL—ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND

      Chapter 24 ASHES OF TINDER—A FACE AT THE WINDOW

      Chapter 25 ASHES OF TINDER—THE LOOSING OF STAYS

      Chapter 26 THE AMBASSADOR FALLEN—A SEARCH FOR THE GATE

      Chapter 27 WHEN WATERS ENGULF US WE REACH FOR A STAR

      Chapter 28 A PILGRIM, AN OUTLAW—THE SPIRIT DETAINED

      Chapter 29 THE SOLACE OF TRAVEL—THE BOATS OF THE SEA

      Chapter 30 THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS—THE PILGRIM A DREAM

      Chapter 31 A PET OF GOOD FORTUNE—BROADWAY FLAUNTS ITS JOYS

      Chapter 32 THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR—A SEER TO TRANSLATE

      Chapter 33 WITHOUT THE WALLED CITY—THE SLOPE OF THE YEARS

      Chapter 34 THE GRIND OF THE MILLSTONES—A SAMPLE OF CHAFF

      Chapter 35 THE PASSING OF EFFORT—THE VISAGE OF CARE

      Chapter 36 A GRIM RETROGRESSION—THE PHANTOM OF CHANCE

      Chapter 37 THE SPIRIT AWAKENS—NEW SEARCH FOR THE GATE

      Chapter 38 IN ELF LAND DISPORTING—THE GRIM WORLD WITHOUT

      Chapter 39 OF LIGHTS AND OF SHADOWS—THE PARTING OF WORLDS

      Chapter 40 A PUBLIC DISSENSION—A FINAL APPEAL

      Chapter 41 THE STRIKE

      Chapter 42 A TOUCH OF SPRING—THE EMPTY SHELL

      Chapter 43 THE WORLD TURNS FLATTERER—AN EYE IN THE DARK

      Chapter 44 AND THIS IS NOT ELF LAND—WHAT GOLD WILL NOT BUY

      Chapter 45 CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POOR

      Chapter 46 STIRRING TROUBLED WATERS

      Chapter 47 THE WAY OF THE BEATEN—A HARP IN THE WIND

      Clementine the Hedgehog

      I do not like Victorian novels. In fact, I am strictly a contemporary fiction ‘hog. I’m a sucker for sparse writing and constant plot development, two things that just don’t seem to happen in old timey books. But as I near middle age (I’m almost two fucking years old—how did that happen?) I feel like I should be embracing new things, starting with the books I read. I thumbed through some of the classics, and God, was that a mistake. Austen? Grow a fucking pair. Hardy? Yawn. Dickens? More like dickhead.

      I finally settled on Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie because it seemed like a story that could take place today, preferably in a sitcom: starry-eyed waif moves to the big city and falls under the influence of rich, older men. I’m somewhat of a cultural anthropologist living amongst you humans, and the ideals romanticized in this book—materialism,