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