Sister Carrie

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Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.
Dreiser and his wife significantly altered the original manuscript to make it more palatable to the prevailing sensibilities of the day, but even this toned down version caused a minor scandal, and Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for it. While first published in 1900, it was withdrawn after the publisher's wife declared it too sordid.[2] This was due to the blurred division line between good and bad in the plot. Although Dreiser's moralizing narrator does assert that, despite the fame and the money she has amassed, Carrie will not be able to achieve peace of mind in her life, the apparent lack of poetic justice – the notion that immorality should lead to some form of punishment in the end – was a concept the reading public were altogether unused to at the time. Between 1900 and 1980, all editions of the novel were of a second altered version. Not until 1981 did Dreiser's unaltered version appear when the University of Pennsylvania Press issued a scholarly edition based upon the original manuscript held by The New York Public Library. It is a reconstruction by a team of leading scholars to represent the novel before it was edited by hands other than Dreiser's.


西奥多·德莱塞，美国现代小说的先驱和代表作家，被认为是同海明威、福克纳并列的的美国现代小说的三大巨头。出生于一个移民家庭。少年生活贫穷，常遭邻居歧视，这在他以后的作品中留下很深的烙印。酷爱读书，21岁成为一位报社记者。23岁发表了他的第一部小说《嘉莉妹妹》。 小说描写了农村姑娘嘉莉来到大城市芝加哥寻找幸福，为摆脱贫困，出卖自己的贞操，先后与推销员和酒店经理同居，后又凭美貌与歌喉成为歌星的故事。作家娴熟地运用自然主义的创作手法，把人的行为物化为“化学反应”的经果，使作品具有极强的社会表现力。小说的故事真正情节是这样的：嘉莉是个俊俏的农村姑娘，她羡慕大都市的物质生活来到了芝加哥谋生。严酷的现实破碎了她的美梦，迎接她的是失业和疾病。在走投无路时，她做了推销员杜洛埃的情妇，后来由于更大的欲望又做了酒店经理赫斯渥的情妇。与赫斯渥私奔后，在纽约由于偶然的机会她成了走红一时的演员，挤上了上流社会，实现了她的幻想。然而，所谓的“上流社会生活”又给她带来了什么呢？她感到空虚，找不到真正生活的意义，在寂寞和凄凉中，她坐在摇椅里梦想着那终不可得的幸福。
1、磁性相吸：各种力的摆布
2、贫穷的威胁：商号巍然耸立
3、初试命运：周薪四块半
4、想入非非：事实的嘲笑
5、不夜城的明珠：名片的作用
6、机器和少女：现代骑士
7、物质的引诱：美的魅力
8、冬天的暗示：特使受召
9、家庭不和的火种：势利眼看人
10、冬天的忠告：幸福使者来访
11、时尚在诱惑：情感在自卫
12、华厦灯火：使者求爱
13、暗结同心：困惑和迷茫
14、视而不见：一方影响下降
15、恼人的旧纽带：青春的魅力
16、缺心眼的阿拉丁：入世之门
17、初窥门径：希望之光
18、初登大堂：欢呼与告别
19、仙境一刻：爱的呼声
20、灵的诱惑：肉的追求
21、美的诱惑：肉在追求
22、战火突起：家庭和肉欲之战
23、心灵的创伤：退却
24、内战的余火：窗边人影
25、内战的余火：六神无主
26、使者离去：自找门路
27、水深火热：想入非非
28、亡命逃犯：灵魂受困
29、旅行的安慰：漂泊的小船
30、大人物的王国：流亡者的梦想
31、命运的宠儿：百老汇大街的花花世界
32、伯提沙撒的宴会：有待应騐的预言
33、禁城之外：每况愈下
34、石磨的碾动：第一道糠屑
35、自暴自弃：满面愁容
36、残酷的衰落：虚幻的机会
37、如梦初醒：另谋出路
38、仙境里的游戏：境外的冷酷世界
39、光明与黑暗：分道扬镳
40、公开的分岐：最后的求职
41、罢工
42、春意融融：人去楼空
43、赞誉的海洋：黑暗中的眼睛
44、此间并非仙境：黄金难买幸福
45、穷人的奇特生计
46、愁上添愁
47、穷途末路：风中竖琴
1、THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--
2、WHAT POVERTY THREATENED--
3、WEE QUESTION OF FORTUNE
4、THE SPENDINGS OF FANCY--
5、A GLITTERING NIGHT FLOWER
6、THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN--A KNIGHT OF
7、WHAT POVERTY THREATENED--
8、INTIMATIONS BY WINTER--
9、CONVENTION'S OWN TINDER-BOX--
10、THE COUNSEL OF WINTER--
11、THE PERSUASION OF FASHION--
12、OF THE LAMPS OF THE MANSIONS--
13、HIS CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED--
14、WITH EYES AND NOT SEEING--
15、THE IRK OF THE OLD TIES--
16、A WITLESS ALADDIN:
17、A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE GATEWAY:
18、JUST OVER THE BORDER:
19、AN HOUR IN ELFLAND:
20、THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT:
21、THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT:
22、THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER:
23、A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL: ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND
24、ASHES OF TINDER: A FACE AT THE WINDOW
25、ASHES OF TINDER: THE LOOSING OF STAYS
26、THE AMBASSADOR FALLEN:
27、WHEN WATERS ENGULF US WE REACH
28、A PILGRIM, AN OUTLAW:
29、THE SOLACE OF TRAVEL:
30、THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS:
31、A PET OF GOOD FORTUNE:
32、THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR
33、WITHOUT THE WALLED CITY:
34、THE GRIND OF THE MILLSTONES:
35、THE PASSING OF EFFORT:
36、A GRIM RETROGRESSION:
37、THE SPIRIT AWAKENS: NEW SEARCH FOR
38、IN ELF LAND DISPORTING:
39、OF LIGHTS AND OF SHADOWS:
40、A PUBLIC DISSENSION: A FINAL APPEAL
41、THE STRIKE
42、A TOUCH OF SPRING: THE EMPTY SHELL
43、THE WORLD TURNS FLATTERER:
44、AND THIS IS NOT ELF LAND:
45、CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POOR
46、STIRRING TROUBLED WATERS
47、THE WAY OF THE BEATEN: