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An american Tragedy
[Paperback - 2021]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics - Crime
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780593313329 | Pages: 880
Shipping Weight: .612 | Dimensions: 5.09 x 1.44 x 7.94 inches

This landmark 1925 novel—the basis for the acclaimed 1951 film A Place in the Sun—is both a riveting crime story and a devastating commentary on the American dream.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Theodore Dreiser was inspired by a true story to write this novel about an ambitious, socially insecure young man who finds himself caught between two very different women—and two very different visions of what his life could be. Clyde Griffiths was born poor and is poorly educated, but his prospects begin to improve when he is offered a job by a wealthy uncle who owns a shirt factory. Soon he achieves a managerial position, and despite being warned to stay away from the women he manages, he becomes involved with Roberta, a poor factory worker who falls in love with him. At the same time, he catches the eye of Sondra, the glamorous socialite daughter of another factory owner, and begins neglecting his lover to court her. When Roberta confronts Clyde with her pregnancy, Clyde's hopes of marrying Sondra are threatened, and he conceives a desperate plan to preserve his dream.

Naturalistic novels of American writer and editorTheodore Herman Albert Dreiserportray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces. Value of his portrayed characters lies in their persistence against all obstacles, not their moral code, and literary situations more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency; this American novelist and journalist so pioneered the naturalist school.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore...

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