An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser

An American Tragedy

Author: Theodore Dreiser
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Book Title
An American Tragedy
Author
Theodore Dreiser
ISBN
9780795353123
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 Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Theodore DreiserPublisher: RosettaBooksPublished: 01/14/2014ISBN: 9780795353123Pages: 538Weight: 2.61lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.73dAccelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 5977 / American TragedyReading Level: 8.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 65
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

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 01/14/2014
ISBN: 9780795353123
Pages: 538
Weight: 2.61lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.73d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 5977 / American Tragedy
Reading Level: 8.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 65
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

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 01/14/2014
ISBN: 9780795353123
Pages: 538
Weight: 2.61lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.73d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 5977 / American Tragedy
Reading Level: 8.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 65