An American Tragedy

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 9780795353123 079535312X 538 BOOK Fiction NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qVh6zgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Theodore Dreiser
• | Publisher: Rosettabooks
• | Publication Date: Jan 14, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 538 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 079535312X
• | ISBN-13: 9780795353123