An American Tragedy
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 1978
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : 1427081271
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Ambitious, 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 bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.
An American Tragedy
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
"Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?" -Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925) An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser is based on the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, her lover's immorality, and his subsequent trial. The novel, laced with dramatic intrigue, is on Time magazine's list of Top 100 All-Time novels. Dreiser's tale follows the life of Clyde Griffiths and his struggle to live a successful life. His ultimate desire for status and women thwart his life goal. A tragedy in all definitions of the term, this novel is for those interested in the human condition and the demise of a common man.
An American Tragedy
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593313321
Book Description
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. Theodore Dreiser was inspired by a true story to write this novel about an ambitious, socially insecure young man who finds himself caught between two very different women--and two very different visions of what his life could be. Clyde Griffiths was born poor and is poorly educated, but his prospects begin to improve when he is offered a job by a wealthy uncle who owns a shirt factory. Soon he achieves a managerial position, and despite being warned to stay away from the women he manages, he becomes involved with Roberta, a poor factory worker who falls in love with him. At the same time, he catches the eye of Sondra, the glamorous socialite daughter of another factory owner, and begins neglecting his lover to court her. When Roberta confronts Clyde with her pregnancy, Clyde's hopes of marrying Sondra are threatened, and he conceives a desperate plan to preserve his dream.
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2017-08-26
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : 9781975804404
Book Description
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy (English Edition)
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2017-01-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781542353359
Book Description
An American tragedy is a novel by American Theodore Dreiser, published in 1925. In 2005, Time ranked it among the hundred best novels written in English since 1923.
Sister Carrie
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679641386
Book Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 'American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,' said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional 'fallen woman' story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 'Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman,' noted Sinclair Lewis. 'Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature,' observed Robert Penn Warren. '[Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.'
An American Tragedy
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Signet Classics
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9780451516961
Book Description
The corruption of a young man becomes a portrait of the society that shaped his ambitions and destroyed him.
An American Tragedy (Annotated)
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2021-02-21
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
On one level, An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success.
An American Tragedy (Illustrated)
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2021-02-06
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
An American Tragedy is a novel by the American writer Theodore Dreiser.
