by Theodore Dreiser · tapa dura · ISBN 9788403095649
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«Una tragedia americana» is the novel by Theodore Dreiser, published by Santillana Ediciones Generales in hardcover (878 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows Clyde Griffiths, a young man desperately pursuing success and social ascent. Theodore Dreiser shows how that ambition and the values of his environment drag the protagonist toward a tragic fate, thereby portraying the flip side of the American dream.
Edition published in 2005. The story is inspired by a real criminal case and served as the basis for the movie 'A Place in the Sun'.
For readers of classic American fiction interested in social portraiture and the contradictions of success.
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).
