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Sister Carrie ( 1900 ) is a ___MASK50___ by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream , first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior , and later becoming a famous actress . It has been called the " greatest of all American urban novels ." The Titan is a ___MASK50___ written by Theodore Dreiser in 1914 . It is Dreiser ' s sequel to The Financier . Published in 1912 , The Financier , a ___MASK50___ by Theodore Dreiser , is the first volume of the " ___MASK62___ ", which includes " The Titan " ( 1914 ) and " The Stoic " ( 1947 ). Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27 , 1871  December 28 , 1945 ) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school . His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code , and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than ___MASK23___ of choice and agency . Dreiser ' s best known novels include " Sister Carrie " ( 1900 ) and " An American Tragedy " ( 1925 ). In 1930 he was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature . The Stoic is a ___MASK50___ by Theodore Dreiser , first published in 1947 . It is the conclusion to " A ___MASK62___ ", his series of novels about Frank Cowperwood , a businessman based on the real - life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes . Dreiser completed " The Stoic " only days before his death in 1945 and the book was published posthumously . An American Tragedy ( 1925 ) is a ___MASK50___ by the American writer Theodore Dreiser . Since 1901 , the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has , in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel , produced " in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction " ( original Swedish : " den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning "). Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy , here " work " refers to an author ' s work as a whole . The Swedish Academy decides who , if anyone , will receive the prize in any given year . ___MASK93___ announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October . It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 ; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry , Nobel Prize in Physics , Nobel Peace Prize , and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .