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Everywhere you looked there was dissatisfaction and adultery in one classic novel after another: Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary,Effi Briest, Sister Carrie, The Great Gatsby and many, many more.
Lev Raphael: What's So Gay About Marriage? The Literary Record Is Grim Lev Raphael 2010
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Everywhere you looked there was dissatisfaction and adultery in one classic novel after another: Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary,Effi Briest, Sister Carrie, The Great Gatsby and many, many more.
Lev Raphael: What's So Gay About Marriage? The Literary Record Is Grim Lev Raphael 2010
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I never read Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy - I did slog my way through 100 pages of Sister Carrie - but I've seen A Place in the Sun, which is based on Dreiser's 1925 true crime novel.
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Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.
Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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