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An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette. In 1923 Dreiser returned to the project, and with the help of his future ...
- Theodore Dreiser
- December 17, 1925
- 1925
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An American Tragedy, novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1925. It is a complex and compassionate account of the life and death of a young antihero named Clyde Griffiths. The novel begins with Clyde’s blighted background, recounts his path to success, and culminates in his apprehension, trial, and execution for murder.
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Jun 21, 2012 · An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by the American writer Theodore Dreiser. Ambitious, handsome, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a ...
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Aug 3, 2010 · “An American Tragedy” is a novel that is divided into three books. The climax of each of these books is a death. Book 1 climaxes with the death of a little girl run down in the street by a speeding car. Book 2 climaxes with the death of Roberta Alden drowned directly or indirectly by the actions and intentions of Clyde Griffith.
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Jan 14, 2014 · An American Tragedy. Theodore Dreiser. RosettaBooks, Jan 14, 2014 - Fiction - 538 pages. 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 ...
About An American Tragedy. 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 ...
About An American Tragedy. An American Masterpiece Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.
