An American Tragedy (Two Volumes in One) by Theodore Dreiser (GT892)

Published 1946: First Two Volume Edition / Hardcover / Good Condition

Original black cloth with gilt block titles on the cover and spine. 840 combined very clean and bright pages, stained on the edge as shown in images, no text affected. Boards are rubbed and faded with time, bumped on the corners and frayed along the spine ends consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A scarce Two Volume in One edition. (GT892)

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An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover. In 1923 Dreiser returned to the project, and with the help of his wife Helen and two editor secretaries, Louise Campbell and Sally Kusell, he completed the massive novel in 1925. [Google Books]

An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream. Extraordinary in scope and power, vivid in its sense of wholesale human waste, unceasing in its rich compassion, An American Tragedy stands as Theodore Dreiser's supreme achievement.

Naturalistic novels of American writer and editor Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces. Value of his portrayed characters lies in their persistence against all obstacles, not their moral code, and literary situations more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency; this American novelist and journalist so pioneered the naturalist school.

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