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Can I read An American Tragedy on EtoBox?
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser; ProQuest (Firm) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is An American Tragedy about?
This epic of class, ambition, and murder in the early twentieth century is “[a] masterpiece... America’s Crime and Punishment ” ( Kirkus Reviews ). Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy is the story of a weak-willed young man who is both a villain and a victim of the valueless, materialistic society around him. Inspired by the true story of an early twentieth-century murder and adapted into a classic film under the title A Place in the Sun , An American Tragedy follows Clyde Griffiths as he is drawn into a circle of wealthy friends despite his own poverty-stricken background. Leaving the needs of his family behind as he buys expensive presents to impress a rich girl, Clyde finds that his new life leads him into a tragedy born of recklessness. Yet he continues to yearn ambitiously for money and status—a desire that will be his downfall. “Dreiser is widely regarded as the strongest of the novelists who have written about America as a business civilization. No one else confronted so directly the sheer intractability of American social life and institutions.”— The New Yorker
Who reads An American Tragedy?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Theodore Dreiser; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780795311512
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (80 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- An American Tragedy (1964)
- An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) (2000)
- An American Tragedy (2014)
- Amerikanskaia tragediia, Американская трагедия (2016)
- An American Tragedy Part Two (2005)
- An American Tragedy (1925)
- 美国悲剧:英汉对照 (2000)
- Una tragedia americana (An American Tragedy) (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (1926)
- AN American Tragedy (Signet Classics) (1964)
- An American Tragedy (2002)
- An American Tragedy (2009)
- 美国悲剧 = An American tragedy (1994)
- Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy (Library of America No.140) (2003)
- An American Tragedy (1978)