This Norton Critical Edition again features the 1900 Doubleday, Page text of the novel. The text is fully annotated to reveal the author's use of actual persons and places in both Chicago and New York. The novel is preceded by "A Note on the ext," which discusses the relationship between this edition's text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition ( 1981 ), and by the "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the typescript version of Sister Carrie.

Preface to the Third Edition

A Note on the Text

The Text of Sister Carrie

Appendix: Passages Cut by Dreiser and Arthur Henry in the Typescript Version of Sister Carrie

Backgrounds and Sources I

CARRIE

Photograph of Emma Dreiser

Chicago Mail·He Cleaned Out the Safe

Chicago Tribune·Clerk and Cash

Chicago Mail ·A Woman in the Case

Chicago Mail·A Dashing Blonde

Chicago Tribune·Hopkins Is Sorry

Theodore Dreiser·[Sisters and Suitors]

HURSTWOOD

Theodore Dreiser·[Downfall in the City]

DROUET

George Ade·The Fable of the Two Mandolin Player and the Willing Performer

THE CITY

Theodore Dreiser·[Chicago]

THE STRIKE

Theodore Dreiser·[A Street-Car Strike]

Backgrounds and Sources II

COMPOSITION

Theodore Dreiser·To H. L. Mencken (May 13, 1916)

Dorothy Dudley·[The Composition of Sister Carrie]

New York Herald·"Sister Carrie": Theodore Dreiser

PUBLICATION

Frank Norris·To Theodore Dreiser (May 28, 1900)

Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (June 9, 1900)

Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (July 14, 1900)

Frank Norris·To Arthur Henry (july 18, 1900)

Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)

Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (july 19, 1900)

Theodore Dreiser·To Arthur Henry (July 23, 1900)

Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (July 26, 1900)

Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (August 2, 1900)

Theodore Dreiser·To Walter H. Page (August 6, 1900)

Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (August 19007)

Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (August 15, 1900)

F. N. Doubleday·To Theodore Dreiser (Sept. 4, 1900)

Theodore Dreiser·To F. N. Doubleday(after Sept. 4, 1900)

Frank Norris·To Theodore Dreiser (January 28, 1901)

LEGEND

St. Louis Post-Dispatch·Author of Sister Carrie

S. A. Everitt·To Theodore Dreiser (February 9, 1905)

Theodore Dreiser·To Fremont Older (Nov. 27, 1923)

F. N. Doubleday·To Franklin Walker (May 4, 1931)

Theodore Dreiser·The Early Adventures of Sister Carrie

Dorothy Dudley·[The "Suppression" Controversy]

Criticism

Theodore Dreiser·True Art Speaks Plainly

Otis Notman·Mr. Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser·To John Howard Lawson(Oct. 10, 1928)

Julian Markels·Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience

Ellen Moers·The Finesse of Dreiser

Robert Penn Warren·[Sister Carrie]

Philip Fisher·The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City

Amy Kaplan·The Sentimental Revolt of Sister Carrie

Alan Trachtenberg·Who Narrates？ Dreiser’s Presence Sister Carrie

Kevin R. McNamara·The Ames of The Good Society:Sister Carrie and Social Engineering

Blanche H. Gelfant·What More Can Carrie Want？Naturalistic Ways of Consuming Women

Donald Pizer·The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie

Cristina Ruotolo·Whence the Song: Voice and Audience in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie

The Chronology of Sister Carrie

Selected Bibliography