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Sister Carrie: A Norton Critical Edition
Theodore Dreiser
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Description for Sister Carrie: A Norton Critical Edition
Paperback. The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailed annotations that reveal the author's use of real people and places in Chicago and New York. Editor(s): Pizer, Donald. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 600.
The novel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationship between this edition’s text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the typescript version of Sister Carrie. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints generous excerpts from Dreiser’s autobiographies and other writings that help establish his personal connection to the novel. Coverage of the supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher is drawn from Dreiser’s correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H. Page, and F. N. ... Read more
The novel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationship between this edition’s text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the typescript version of Sister Carrie. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints generous excerpts from Dreiser’s autobiographies and other writings that help establish his personal connection to the novel. Coverage of the supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher is drawn from Dreiser’s correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H. Page, and F. N. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Condition
New
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393927733
SKU
V9780393927733
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About Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) is one of the most controversial figures in American literary history. His novels shared with the man a capacity to affront. Sister Carrie is universally recognized as a major American novel. Donald Pizer was Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University. He was the author of The Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century ... Read more
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