{"product_id":"sister-carrie-the-pennsylvania-edition-hardcover-1","title":"Sister Carrie: The Pennsylvania Edition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTheodore Dreiser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn C. Berkey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlice M. Winters\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHidden under layers of error and corruption, the original version of \u003ci\u003eSister Carrie\u003c\/i\u003e has finally emerged. The American classic that has been read in English courses for many decades is not the text as Dreiser wrote it. Even before it was submitted to Doubleday, Page and Company, the manuscript of \u003ci\u003eSister Carrie\u003c\/i\u003e had been cut and censored. Dreiser's wife Sara-­-nicknamed \"Jug\"--and his friend Arthur Henry persuaded the author to make many changes. Both Jug and Henry felt that the novel was too bleak, the sexuality too explicit, the philosophy too intense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a description of Carrie, for instance, Dreiser had written, \"Her dresses draped her becomingly, for she wore excellent corsets and laced herself with care. . . . She had always been of cleanly instincts and now that opportunity afforded, she kept her body sweet.\" Apparently this passage was too intimate for Jug, for she revised it to: \"Her dresses draped her becomingly. . . . She had always been of cleanly instincts. Her teeth were white, her nails rosy.\" Jug and Henry urged Dreiser to make his bleak ending more equivocal. He changed it, but Jug, still dissatisfied, rewrote his second ending. Her version was published with the first edition and has appeared with every edition since printed. Doubleday, Page and Company further insisted that all real names--of theaters, bars, streets, actors, etc.--be changed to fictitious ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe editors of this new edition have gone back to the original handwritten manuscript as well as to the typescript that went to the publisher and have restored the text of \u003ci\u003eSister Carrie\u003c\/i\u003e to its original purity. Errors of typists and printers have been corrected; cut and censored passages have been reinstated. Not only have original names been restored, but the Pennsylvania edition includes maps, illustrations, and historical notes that further identify these people and places. The edition also includes a selected textual apparatus for the scholar. The characters are significantly altered in this new text: Carrie has more emotional depth, conscience, and sexuality; Hurstwood shows more passion; Drouet is a bit less likable; Ames is a bit more vulnerable. With the inclusion of the original ending, Dreiser's vision becomes- more bleak and deterministic: In its expanded and purified form, \u003ci\u003eSister Carrie\u003c\/i\u003e is more tragic and infinitely richer; in effect it is a new work of art by one of the major American novelists of this century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn C. Berkey was Professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden. Alice M. Winters was a journalist, editor, and re-searcher. James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. Neda M. Westlake was Curator of the Rare Books Collection at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 704\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 1981\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sister Carrie\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.4\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 26\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53146251886899,"sku":"9780812277845","price":129.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZHefmPEl239780812277845_1bf5e656-8379-474c-8373-53d0732a429a.webp?v=1773863923","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sister-carrie-the-pennsylvania-edition-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}