Sister Carrie (Leather Bound Collector's Edition)

Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. Collector;s edition. Bound in original green genuine full leather. Publisher's bookplate. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. Decoration and lettering stamped in gilt. Four raised bands. Publisher's bookplate. .First novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1900, but suppressed until 1912. Sister Carrie tells the story of a rudderless but pretty small-town girl who comes to the big city filled with vague ambitions. She is used by men and uses them in turn to become a successful Broadway actress, while George Hurstwood, the married man who has run away with her, loses his grip on life and descends into beggary and suicide. Sister Carrie was the first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement in its grittily factual presentation of the vagaries of urban life and in its ingenuous heroine, who goes unpunished for her transgressions against conventional sexual morality. The book's strengths include a brooding but compassionate view of humanity, a memorable cast of characters, and a compelling narrative line. The emotional disintegration of Hurstwood is a much-praised triumph of psychological analysis. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall.