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| Original title | American Tragedy, An |
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| Language | English |
| Author | Theodore Dreiser |
| Year | Den Norske Bokklubben, 1978 |
| First Published | 1925 |
| ISBN | 8252505295 |
| Google Books ID | MTD68gM2duoC |
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Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel about the harsh realities of American life. Based on an actual murder case, the story concerns a young man, Clyde Griffiths, who is born into a religious family. His life changes when he takes work as a bellboy in a hotel in Kansas City and is exposed to the world of alcohol and prostitution. Griffiths’s affair with a girl, Roberta, results in pregnancy, and she expects to marry him. But by now Clyde loves another woman.