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An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy

Dreiser, Theodore

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 079535312X
ISBN13: 9780795353123
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: Jan 14 2014
Pages: 538
Weight: 2.61
Height: 1.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This epic of class, ambition, and murder in the early twentieth century is [a] masterpiece...America's Crime and Punishment (Kirkus Reviews).

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is the story of a weak-willed young man who is both a villain and a victim of the valueless, materialistic society around him. Inspired by the true story of an early twentieth-century murder and adapted into a classic film under the title A Place in the Sun, An American Tragedy follows Clyde Griffiths as he is drawn into a circle of wealthy friends despite his own poverty-stricken background. Leaving the needs of his family behind as he buys expensive presents to impress a rich girl, Clyde finds that his new life leads him into a tragedy born of recklessness. Yet he continues to yearn ambitiously for money and status--a desire that will be his downfall.

Dreiser is widely regarded as the strongest of the novelists who have written about America as a business civilization. No one else confronted so directly the sheer intractability of American social life and institutions.--The New Yorker

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