正版 嘉莉妹妹 TheodoreDreiser[著] 中央编译出版社 97875

Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING——A WAIF AMID FORCES
Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED——OF GRANITE AND BRASS
Chapter III WEE QUESTIONOF FORTUNE——FOUR-FIFTY A WEEK
Chapter IV THE SPENDINGS OF FANCY——FACTS ANSWER WITH SNEERS
Chapter V A GLITTERING NIGHT FLOWER——THE USE OF A NAME
Chapter VI THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN——A KNIGHT OF TODAY
Chapter VII THE LURE OF THE MATERIAL——BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
Chapter VIII INTIMATIONS BY WINTER——AN AMBASSADOR SUMMONED
Chapter IX CONVENTIONS OWN TINDERBOX——THE EYE THAT IS GREEN
Chapter X THE COUNSEL OF WINTER——FORTUNES AMBASSADOR CALLS
Chapter XI THE PERSUASION OF FASHION——FEELING GUARDS OER ITS OWN
Chapter XII OF THE LAMPS OF THE MANSIONS——THE AMBASSADORS PLEA
Chapter XIII HIS CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED——A BABEL OF TONGUES
Chapter XIV WITH EYES AND NOT SEEING——-ONE INFLUENCE WANES
Chapter XV THE IRK OF THE OLD TIES——THE MAGIC OF YOUTH
Chapter XVI A WITLESS ALADDIN——THE GATE TO THE WORLD
Chapter XVII A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE GATEW——HOPE LIGHTENS THE EYE
Chapter XVIII JUST OVER THE BORDER——A HAIL AND FAREWELL
Chapter ~IX AN HOUR IN ELFLAND——A CLAMOR HALF HEARD
Chapter XX THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT——THE FLESH IN PURSUIT
Chapter XXI THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT——THE FLESH IN PURSUIT
Chapter XXII THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER——FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESH
Chapter XXIII A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL——ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND
Chapter XXW ASHES OF TINDER——A FACE AT THE WINDOW
Chapter XXV ASHES OF TINDER——THE LOOSING OF STAYS
Chapter XXVI THE AMBASSADOR FALLEN——A SEARCH FOR THE GATE
Chapter XXVII WHEN WATERS ENGULF US——WE REACH FOR A STAR
Chapter XXVIII A PILGRIM, AN OUTLAW——THE SPIRIT DETAINED
Chapter XXIX THE SOLACE OF TRAVEL——THE BOATS OF THE SEA
Chapter XXX THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS——THE PILGRIM ADREAM
Chapter XXXI A PET OF GOOD FORTUNE——BROADWAY FLAUNTS ITS JOYS
Chapter XXXII THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR——A SEER TO TRANSLATE
Chapter XXXIU WITHOUT THE WALLED CITY——THE SLOPE OF THE YEARS
Chapter XXXIV THE GRIND OF THE MILLSTONES——A SAMPLE OF CHAFF
Chapter XXXV THE PASSING OF EFFORT——THE VISAGE OF CARE
Chapter XXXVI A GRIM RETROGRESSION——THE PHANTOM OF CHANCE
Chapter XXXVII THE SPIRIT AWAKENS——NEW SEARCH FOR THE GATE
Chapter XXXVIII IN ELF LAND DISPORTING——THE GRIM WORLD WITHOUT
Chapter XXXIX OF LIGHTS AND OF SHADOWS——THE PARTING OF WORLDS
Chapter XL A PUBLIC DISSENSION——A FINAL APPEAL
Chapter XLI THE STRIKE
Chapter XLII A TOUCH OF SPRING——THE EMPTY SHELL
Chapter XLIII THE WORLD TURNS FLATTERER——AN EYE IN THE DARK
Chapter XLIV AND THIS IS NOT ELF LAND——WHAT GOLD WILL NOT BUY
Chapter XLV CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POOR
Chapter XLVI STIRRING TROUBLED WATERS
Chapter XLVII THE WAY OF THE BEATEN——A HARP IN THE WIND

Theodore Dreiser （1871-1945） wasan American novelist andjournalist. In 1892, when Dreiserbegan work as a newspaperman,he "began to observe a certaintype of crime in the United Statesthat proved very common. Itseemed to spring from the factthat almost every young personwas possessed of an ingrownambition to be somebodyfinanly and soly." He pioneered the naturalistschool and is known forportraying characters whose valuelies not in their moral code, butin their persistence against allobstacles, and literary situationsthat more closely resemblestudies of nature than tales ofchoice and agency.

《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》是美国20世纪靠前部描写都市生活的力作，小说真实地再现了一个农村姑娘如何受到芝加哥灯红酒绿、浮华丑恶氖围的熏染，逐渐泯灭淳朴的个性，以牺牲色相为代价成为纽约电影界的名演员，从而跻身于上流社会。小说因其太过真实的描写剌痛了道德家们的眼睛。当年为出版社审阅书稿的就是美国有名作家、长篇小说《章鱼》的作者弗兰·诺斯，尽管诺斯对这位文学新人身上闪现着的深刻、敏锐的批判精神大加赞赏，很终也没能扭转遭的厄运。

美国靠前位诺贝尔文学奖得主辛莱·刘易斯曾满怀深情地说：“德莱塞于三十年前写作了他的处女作《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》，而我在二十五年前就读到了它；它像一股自由、强劲的西风吹进闭塞、沉闷的美国，给我们滞塞的个人天地里带来了自马’吐温和魏特曼以来的靠前缕新鲜空气。”

WHEN Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago,her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitationalligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leathersnap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister'saddress in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in mone It was inAugust, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full ofthe illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret atparting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantagesnow being given up. A gush of tears at hermother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throatwhen the cars clacked by the flour mill whereher father worked by the day. a pathetic sigh asthe familiar green environs of the village passedin review, and the threads which bound her solightly to girlhood and home were irretrievablybroken.
Sister Carrie （1900） is a novel by TheodoreDreiser about a young country girl who movesto the big city where she starts realizing herown American Dream by first becoming amistress to men that she perceives as superiorand later as a famous actress.　In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 193o, SinclairLewis said that "Dreiser's great first novel,Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirtylong years ago and which I read twenty-fiveyears ago, came to housebound and airlessAmerica like a great free Western wind, andto our stuffy domestidity gave us the first freshair since Mark Twain and Whitman".