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Sister Carrie
Narrated by Laurel Lefkow
Written by Theodore Dreiser
(1900)
The Magnet Attracting — A Waif Amid Forces
What Poverty Threatened — Of Granite and Brass
Wee Question of Fortune — Four-Fifty a Week
The Spendings of Fancy — Facts Answer with Sneers
A Glittering Night Flower — The Use of a Name
The Machine and the Maiden — A Knight of to-Day
The Lure of the Material — Beauty Speaks for Itself
Intimations by Winter — An Ambassador Summoned
Convention’s Own Tinder-Box — The Eye that is Green
The Counsel of Winter — Fortune’s Ambassador Calls
The Persuasion of Fashion — Feeling Guards O’er its Own
Of the Lamps of the Mansions — The Ambassador Plea
His Credentials Accepted — A Babel of Tongues
With Eyes and Not Seeing — One Influence Wanes
The Irk of the Old Ties — The Magic of Youth
A Witless Aladdin — The Gate to the World
A Glimpse Through the Gateway — Hope Lightens the Eye
Just Over the Border — A Hail and Farewell
An Hour in Elfland — A Clamour Half Heard
The Lure of the Spirit — The Flesh in Pursuit
The Lure of the Spirit — The Flesh in Pursuit
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The Blaze of the Tinder — Flesh Wars with the Flesh
A Spirit in Travail — One Rung Put Behind
Ashes of Tinder — A Face at the Window
Ashes of Tinder — The Loosing of Stays
The Ambassador Fallen — A Search for the Gate
When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star
A Pilgrim, an Outlaw — The Spirit Detained
The Solace of Travel — The Boats of the Sea
The Kingdom of Greatness — The Pilgrim a Dream
A Pet of Good Fortune — Broadway Flaunts its Joys
The Feast of Belshazzar — A Seer to Translate
Without the Walled City — The Slope of the Years
The Grind of the Millstones — A Sample of Chaff
The Passing of Effort — The Visage of Care
A Grim Retrogression — The Phantom of Chance
The Spirit Awakens — New Search for the Gate
In Elf Land Disporting — The Grim World Without
Of Lights and of Shadows — The Parting of Worlds
A Public Dissension — A Final Appeal
The Strike
A Touch of Spring — The Empty Shell
The World Turns Flatterer — An Eye in the Dark
And this is Not Elf Land — What Gold Will Not Buy
Curious Shifts of the Poor
Stirring Troubled Waters
The Way of the Beaten — A Harp in the Wind
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