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Sister CarrieRead about another book on Pearson's list.
by Theodore Dreiser
A young girl has an affair with a married industrialist and as social outcasts they begin a new life in New York. As her career soars from chorus girl to Broadway star his goes into terminal decline. You’d be forgiven for thinking Dreiser was influenced by A Star Is Born but Sister Carrie was written in 1900.
--Marshal Zeringue