Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2003-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The author's classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for success.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"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.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 3985518068
An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize the American Dream. It's an ambitious novel that unflinchingly confronts the lie of the American Dream and myth of a classless society with opportunities for all, and an extraordinary crime novel that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. Nothing short of monumental.-- Kirkus The naturalist author Theodore Dreiser was obsessed with true crime, keeping track of articles and cases in the early 20th century. The product of this obsession was his 1925 novel, "An American Tragedy", based on a true crime story from New York's Adirondack Mountains region that Dreiser followed. This novel was one of Dreiser's most successful works and has often been hailed as his masterpiece.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 059331333X
This landmark 1925 novel about a social climber who murders his pregnant lover is both a riveting crime story and a devastating commentary on the American dream. A VINTAGE CLASSIC. 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.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category :
ISBN :
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.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category :
ISBN :
'An American Tragedy' is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream. Extraordinary in scope and power, vivid in its sense of wholesale human waste, unceasing in its rich compassion, 'An American Tragedy' stands as Theodore Dreiser's supreme achievement.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : New York, H. Liveright
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1929
Category : New York (State)
ISBN :
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2017-02-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781543033526
In voluminous detail, Dreiser tells the bewildering story of Clyde Griffiths, a son of evangelists, who takes a job as a bellhop, is involved in an automobile accident, escapes to another city, finds work in his uncle's factory, divides his affection between a factory girl and a socialite, entices the pregnant factory girl to a lake, lets her drown, and is himself tried, sentenced, and electrocuted.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438786704
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780940450417
This volume contains three novels by the renowned master of naturalism, including "Sister Carrie," the story of a young women's rise in the world as her lover sinks into poverty and suicide
