An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy
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Publisher : e-artnow
Total Pages : 907
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ISBN-10 : 9788026894933
ISBN-13 : 8026894936
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Book Synopsis An American Tragedy by : Theodore Dreiser

Download or read book An American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.


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