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I just finished Sister Carrie and really enjoyed it. However, I read a review and learned there is an updated edition (post 1980), which restores Dreiser's original intent. How much different are the two versions? Now I feel a bit gipped.

Brian From the 1996 introduction by Alfred Kazin: "I cannot claim that the 'restored' Sister Carrie makes this a 'better' novel than the masterpiece we alre…moreFrom the 1996 introduction by Alfred Kazin: "I cannot claim that the 'restored' Sister Carrie makes this a 'better' novel than the masterpiece we already know, but it is in many ways a different book, fuller, less cruel, more recognizably Dreiser's own work."(less)

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