In August 1889 Caroline Meeber takes the train to Chicago with four dollars and her sister’s address. Factory work at four-fifty a week drives her into the arms of Drouet, a salesman, and then of Hurstwood, a prosperous saloon manager, whose theft and flight to New York set her rise as an actress against his slow descent.
Dreiser’s first novel of 1900, whose frank indifference to conventional morality made it a landmark of American naturalism. Download the free EPUB.