American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize the American Dream. It''s an ambitious novel that unflinchingly confronts the lie of the American Dream and myth of a classless societ...