The Sister Carrie edition that was published in 1900, long regarded as
a watershed work in American fiction, was actually a censored
misrepresentation of Drieser's original story. When, 80 years later, the
Pennsylvania Edition first appeared, replete with scholarly apparatus,
it was hailed from coast to coast as a literary event of major
importance. The Pennsylvania Edition restored the 36,000 words that had
been excised at the insistence of the author's wife, his publisher, and
a friend.
This edition contains the complete, unexpurgated text, without the
scholarly apparatus, plus a new introductory essay by Thomas P. Riggio.