Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy (Loa #140) Hardcover - 2003
by Theodore Dreiser; Thomas P. Riggio
A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, An American Tragedy is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character. Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest.
In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence. Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed fictional portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressive power, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer. An American Tragedy, the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking.
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- Title Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy (Loa #140)
- Author Theodore Dreiser; Thomas P. Riggio
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 960
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Library of America, New York
- Date 2003-03-10
- ISBN 9781931082310 / 1931082316
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 1.25 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 3.18 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1170
- Library of Congress subjects New York (State), Legal stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002030168
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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