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Dreiser transforms the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely original work of imaginative fiction. He hurls his impressionable eighteen-year-old heroine into the amoral world of the big city and reveals, with powerful insight, the driving forces of our culture: America's restless idealism, glamorous material seductions and spiritual innocence.
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"Its outstanding merit is its simplicity, its unaffected seriousness and fervor."
H. L. Mencken
"Dreiser's great first novel…came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman."
Sinclair Lewis
"Absolutely free from the slightest trace of sentimentality or pettiness, and dominated everywhere by a serious and strenuous desire for truth."
Academy