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An American Tragedy

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title An American Tragedy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Theodore Dreiser
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:870
Dimensions(mm): Height 172,Width 105
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780451531551
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Signet Classics
Publication Date 3 August 2010
Publication Country United States

Description

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.

Author Biography

Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871. After a poor and difficult childhood, Dreiser broke into newspaper work in Chicago in 1892. A successful career as a magazine writer in New York during the late 1890s was followed by his first novel, Sister Carrie (1900). When this work made little impact, Dreiser published no fiction until Jennie Gerhardt in 1911. There then followed a decade and a half of major work in a number of literary forms, which was capped in 1925 by An American Tragedy, a novel that brought him universal acclaim. Dreiser was increasingly preoccupied by philosophical and political issues during the last two decades of his life. He died in Los Angeles on December 28, 1945.

Reviews

A work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking.