Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
637 pages~11 hrs
“In the city of big dreams, the cost of success is everything you used to be.”
Carrie Meeber arrives in the city with nothing but raw ambition and a hunger for a life beyond her means. As she navigates the seductive allure of Chicago and New York, she discovers that rising to the top often requires leaving morality—and people—far behind.
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