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.
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- ISBN: 9781501455339
- File size: 1202 KB
- Release date: April 28, 2016
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781501455339
- File size: 1202 KB
- Release date: April 28, 2016