Students interested in books similar to Sister Carrie may look into Drieser’s other works, namely 1925’s An American Tragedy, which also outlines the rise and fall of a reserved Midwesterner who comes to the big city, and Jennie Gerhardt from 1911 . Other works in the naturalist genre include Stephen Crane’s urban tale Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Henry James’s A Portrait of a Lady, and McTeague by Frank Norris. Students may also seek out works by the French author Émile Zola, such as Claude’s Confession and Doctor Pascal, which influenced the American naturalists.
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