"Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Carrie Sister Carrie like an unsavory pit stain."
— Theodore Dreiser

January 1, 1970

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Clementine the Hedgehog, introducing Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser