An American Tragedy

ДАВАЙТЕ ПОЧИТАЕМ В ОРИГИНАЛЕ! An American Tragedy Today we are reading Theodore Dreiser’s novel “An American Tragedy”. 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. “An American Tragedy” is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. 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. “An American Tragedy” was the inspiration for the 1951 film “A Place in the Sun”, which won six Academy Awards and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. “An American Tragedy”