{"product_id":"9780140188288","title":"Sister Carrie","description":"\u003cb\u003e“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls  into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard  of virtue and becomes worse.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eSister Carrie\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1900, Theodore  Dreiser transformed the conventional “fallen woman” story into a genuinely innovative  and powerful work of fiction. As he hurled his impressionable midwestern heroine  into the throbbing, amoral world of the big city, he revealed, with brilliant insight,  the deep and driving forces of American culture: the restless idealism, glamorous  materialism, and basic spiritual innocence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSister Carrie\u003c\/i\u003e brought American literature  into the twentieth century. This volume, which reprints the text Dreiser approved  for publication during his lifetime and includes a special appendix discussing his  earlier, unedited manuscript, is the original standard edition of one of the great  masterpieces of literary realism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Theodore Dreiser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47564230033620,"sku":"9780140188288","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b2cbb144-219b-4636-b445-fee104712118.jpg?v=1771383818","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780140188288","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}