Sister Carrie: A Novel

by Theodore Dreiser

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Contents

  1. Chapter I. The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces
  2. Chapter II. What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass
  3. Chapter III. Wee Question of Fortune: Four-Fifty A Week
  4. Chapter IV. The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers
  5. Chapter V. A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of A Name
  6. Chapter VI. The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of to-Day
  7. Chapter VII. The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself
  8. Chapter VIII. Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned
  9. Chapter IX. Convention’s Own Tinder-Box: The Eye That Is Green
  10. Chapter X. The Counsel of Winter: Fortune’s Ambassador Calls
  11. Chapter XI. The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards O’er Its Own
  12. Chapter XII. Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador Plea
  13. Chapter XIII. His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues
  14. Chapter XIV. With Eyes and Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes
  15. Chapter XV. The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth
  16. Chapter XVI. A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World
  17. Chapter XVII. A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye
  18. Chapter XVIII. Just Over the Border: A Hail and Farewell
  19. Chapter XIX. An Hour in Elfland: A Clamour Half Heard
  20. Chapter XX. The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit
  21. Chapter XXI. The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit
  22. Chapter XXII. The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars with the Flesh
  23. Chapter XXIII. A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind
  24. Chapter XXIV. Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window
  25. Chapter XXV. Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays
  26. Chapter XXVI. The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate
  27. Chapter XXVII. When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for A Star
  28. Chapter XXVIII. A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: The Spirit Detained
  29. Chapter XXIX. The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea
  30. Chapter XXX. The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream
  31. Chapter XXXI. A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts Its Joys
  32. Chapter XXXII. The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate
  33. Chapter XXXIII. Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years
  34. Chapter XXXIV. The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff
  35. Chapter XXXV. The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care
  36. Chapter XXXVI. A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance
  37. Chapter XXXVII. The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate
  38. Chapter XXXVIII. In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without
  39. Chapter XXXIX. Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds
  40. Chapter XL. A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal
  41. Chapter XLI. The Strike
  42. Chapter XLII. A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell
  43. Chapter XLIII. The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark
  44. Chapter XLIV. And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy
  45. Chapter XLV. Curious Shifts of the Poor
  46. Chapter XLVI. Stirring Troubled Waters
  47. Chapter XLVII. The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind

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