Sister Carrie
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Carrie, Hurstwood, Drouet
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Outdated and archaic prose, but a classic that helped launch a new school of writing: the naturalist style.
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When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small truck, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
last lines
(spoiler alert)
In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.
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