![]() Clyde knows what he should do-marry Roberta, settle down, raise a family-but his reckless ways refuse to remain in the past. Desperate and confused, he turns to a beautiful socialite named Sondra Finchley, the daughter of a local factory owner. When she becomes pregnant, Clyde begins to feel his dreams of freedom fade, and longs for a way out of marriage. Forced to flee Kansas City after a deadly auto accident, Clyde moves to Chicago before settling in Lycurgus, New York, where he meets a young farmgirl named Roberta Allen. As friends and lovers come and go, he fails to find footing in a society fueled by ambition and cunning. A young Midwesterner bucks against his puritan upbringing, drinking with acquaintances and frequenting prostitutes when he isn't busy working any number of thankless jobs. ![]() Based on the murder of Grace Brown in 1906, the novel proved controversial for its depiction of depravity and violence, but has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique nearly a century after its publication. ![]() Written and rewritten over a number of years, An American Tragedy is a weighty epic with a cleareyed vision of the decay at the heart of industrialized society. An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. ![]()
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