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Description

story follows young Carrie, who is unable to make it in the big city, and who becomes the mistress of a married man in return for material possessions. Reissue.

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First Sentence

When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Theodore Dreiser (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Lee Clark Mitchell
  2. James L. W. West
  3. Donald Pizer
 

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