A country girl arrives in Chicago, becomes first a mistress and then a stage success, and the man who ruined himself for her goes down as she rises. Doubleday printed it in 1900 and then refused to advertise it, the publisher's wife having found it immoral; it sold under five hundred copies and is now the first modern American novel.
Engels
The Essential Feminist Classics : Including Biographies & Memoirs of the Most Influential Women in History
Sister Carrie
An American Tragedy
The Stoic
The Financier : The Rise of a Philadelphia Financier
The "Genius" : A Painter Between Work and Appetite
A Book About Myself : The Novelist's Newspaper Years
Jennie Gerhardt : A Poor Girl and Two Men of Means
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy