Sister Carrie

Written by:
Theodore Dreiser
Narrated by:
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Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
7
Narrator
5
Release Date
January 2016
Duration
17 hours 50 minutes
Summary
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city (Chicago) where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to powerful men and later as a famous actress.

Dreiser and his wife significantly altered the original manuscript to make it more palatable to the prevailing sensibilities of the day, but even this toned down Version caused a minor scandal, and Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for it. This was due to the blurred division line between good and bad in the plot. Although Dreiser's moralizing narrator does assert that, despite the fame and the money she has amassed, Carrie will not be able to achieve peace of mind in her life, the apparent lack of poetic justice -- the notion that immorality should pay in the end, even if only up to a point -- was a concept the reading public were altogether unused to at the time. (summary from wikipedia)
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Jan B.

Groundbreaking in its day, the story itself was pretty interesting, but the level of detail in the writing, the babystepping into every action, and how much everything costs, while great if you're doing research in that era, gets pretty tedius. A lot of repetition and heavy handed. I thought I had a lot of patience for turn of the century detail, but I have to conclude Dreiser is not my favorite author. The narration was so bad in parts, that might have had an impact on my assessment of the story. I vowed never to download another one of these.

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Anonymous

Great book . American classic that passed the test of time. Loved the parts narrated by Bob Sage. Had to increase the audio speed when Andrea Deans took over the narration.

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Anonymous

Great story but almost had to stop when Andrea Deans took over the narration.

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