What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken?

And now Carrie had attained that which in the beginning seemed life's object, or, at least, such fraction of it as human beings ever attain of their original desires … Applause there was and publicity 一 once far off, essential things, but now grown trivial and indifferent. Beauty also 一 her type of loveliness 一 and yet she was lonely. In her rocking-chair she sat, when not otherwise engaged — singing and dreaming.
What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?
【正确答案】：

 SISTER CARRIE. DREISER

【题目解析】：引文选自德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》。