An American tragedy, v. 2 by Theodore Dreiser
"An American Tragedy, v. 2" by Theodore Dreiser is a novel published in 1925. Based on a real 1906 murder case, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a young man from a poor religious family who climbs toward wealth and status. When he impregnates factory worker Roberta while courting wealthy socialite Sondra, Clyde faces an impossible choice. His desperate solution leads to a drowning, a sensational trial, and a fate sealed by circumstantial evidence
and his own contradictory testimony. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 |
|---|---|
| Title | An American tragedy, v. 2 |
| Original Publication | United States: Boni and Liverlight, 1925. |
| Note | Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Tragedy |
| Credits | Emmanuel Ackerman, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Young men -- Fiction |
| Subject | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Social classes -- Fiction |
| Subject | New York (State) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Trials (Murder) -- Fiction |
| Subject | American Dream -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 75182 |
| Release Date | Jan 23, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 467 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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