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American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Start Publishing PD · Paperback · April 23, 2024
Reading lane: 20th-Century Historical Fiction
An American Tragedy is a tour de force one of the most important novels in the American cannon.
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Book Details
- Authors
- Theodore Dreiser
- Publisher
- Start Publishing PD
- Published
- April 23, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- 20th-Century Historical Fiction · 20th-Century American Fiction
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century Historical Fiction
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Literary Fiction
Crime Fiction
About This Book
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 yo...
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