by Theodore Dreiser · Signet Classics · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780451527707
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«An American Tragedy» is the novel by Theodore Dreiser, published by Signet Classics in paperback (880 pages, in English).
Clyde Griffiths, a humble young man, pursues social success in early twentieth-century America. His ambitions clash with a society that shapes his desires and drags him into a conflicted relationship and a tragic outcome. The novel is a critical portrait of the American dream and of inequality, ambition, and morality.
Based on a real criminal case, it inspired the movie A Place in the Sun. The novel was originally published in 1925; this edition includes an introduction by Richard Lingeman.
Will appeal to readers of American classics and social realist novels.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best-known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
