Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy

Clyde Griffiths, “an average young American with a typically American outlook on life,” the nephew of the wealthy Lycurgus manufacturer Samuel Griffiths, seeking to establish himself in high society at any cost, begins an affair with his cousin’s friend, 17-year-old Sondra Finchley, the wealthy heiress of another a local manufacturer, a beautiful, spoiled, narcissistic representative of the city's "golden youth". Weighed down by his ongoing love affair with a simple factory worker Roberta Alden, Clyde decides to put an end to his relationship with her with one blow - which will turn out to be fatal for himself... "An American Tragedy" (1925) - based on real events, a criminal-judicial story, a psychological drama and at the same time a stern rebuke to the "American Dream" - became Theodore Dreiser's most famous novel and the plot of several feature films.

Author: Theodore Dreiser

Translation: Nora Gal, Zinaida Vershinina

Pages: 864 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 217x153x40 mm

Series: Foreign literature. Big books