Volume 28, Number 2 · February 19, 1981
Restoring 'Sister Carrie'
By Alfred Kazin
One day in August 1889 eighteen-year-old Caroline Meeber from Columbia City, Wisconsin—'Sister Carrie as she was half affectionately termed by her family'—boarded a train for Chicago that was to take her (and the surprisingly but never dependably gifted newspaper reporter from Terre Haute who had just put her into his first novel) into world literature.
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