An American Tragedy by Dreiser, Theodore

An American Tragedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780795353123)

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An American Tragedy by Dreiser, Theodore

An American Tragedy

$28.99
An American Tragedy by Dreiser, Theodore

An American Tragedy

$28.99
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Theodore Dreiser
ISBN-10: 079535312X
ISBN-13: 9780795353123
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2014
Pages: 538
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.61lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.73d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.5
Point Value: 65
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 5977 / American Tragedy
By Theodore Dreiser
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The Indiana-born Dreiser (1871-1945) has never cut a dashing or romantic swath through American literature. He has no Pulitzer or Nobel Prize to signify his importance. Yet he remains for myriad reasons: his novels are often larger than life, rugged, and defy the norms of conventional morality and organized religion. They are unapologetic in their sexual candor--in fact, outrightly frank--and challenge even modern readers. The brooding force of Dreiser' s writing casts a dark shadow across American letters. Here in An American Tragedy, Dreiser shows us the flip side of The American Dream in a gathering storm that echoes with all of the power and force of Dostoevsky' s Crime and Punishment. Inspired by the writings of Balzac and the ideas of Spenser and Freud, Dreiser went on to become one of America' s best naturalist writers. An American Tragedy is testimony to the strength of Dreiser' s work: it retains all of its original intensity and force.

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