Sister Carrie is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realising her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. It has been called the 'greatest of all American urban novels.'

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I: The Magnet Attracting: A Waif Amid Forces

II: What Poverty Threatened: Of Granite and Brass

III: We Question of Fortune: Four-Fifty a Week

IV: The Spendings of Fancy: Facts Answer with Sneers

V: A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name

VI: The Machine and the Maiden: A Knight of Today

VII: The Lure of the Material: Beauty Speaks for Itself

VIII: Intimations by Winter: An Ambassador Summoned

IX: Convention’s Own Tinderbox: The Eye That Is Green

X: The Counsel of Winter: Fortune’s Ambassador Calls

XI: The Persuasion of Fashion: Feeling Guards O’er Its Own

XII: Of the Lamps of the Mansions: The Ambassador’s Plea

XIII: His Credentials Accepted: A Babel of Tongues

XIV: With Eyes and Not Seeing: One Influence Wanes

XV: The Irk of the Old Ties: The Magic of Youth

XVI: A Witless Aladdin: The Gate to the World

XVII: A Glimpse Through the Gateway: Hope Lightens the Eye

XVIII: Just Over the Border: A Hail and Farewell

XIX: An Hour in Elfland: A Clamour Half Heard

XX: The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit

XXI: The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit

XXII: The Blaze of the Tinder: Flesh Wars with the Flesh

XXIII: A Spirit in Travail: One Rung Put Behind

XXIV: Ashes of Tinder: A Face at the Window

XXV: Ashes of Tinder: The Loosing of Stays

XXVI: The Ambassador Fallen: A Search for the Gate

XXVII: When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star

XXVIII: A Pilgrim, an Outlaw: The Spirit Detained

XXIX: The Solace of Travel: The Boats of the Sea

XXX: The Kingdom of Greatness: The Pilgrim Adream

XXXI: A Pet of Good Fortune: Broadway Flaunts Its Joys

XXXII: The Feast of Belshazzar: A Seer to Translate

XXXIII: Without the Walled City: The Slope of the Years

XXXIV: The Grind of the Millstones: A Sample of Chaff

XXXV: The Passing of Effort: The Visage of Care

XXXVI: A Grim Retrogression: The Phantom of Chance

XXXVII: The Spirit Awakens: New Search for the Gate

XXXVIII: In Elf Land Disporting: The Grim World Without

XXXIX: Of Lights and of Shadows: The Parting of Worlds

XL: A Public Dissension: A Final Appeal

XLI: The Strike

XLII: A Touch of Spring: The Empty Shell

XLIII: The World Turns Flatterer: An Eye in the Dark

XLIV: And This Is Not Elf Land: What Gold Will Not Buy

XLV: Curious Shifts of the Poor

XLVI: Stirring Troubled Waters

XLVII: The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind

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