An American Tragedy



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An American Tragedy - Wikipedia



An American

Tragedy

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.

[1]

 The book entered the 



public domain

in the United States

 on January 1, 2021.



Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street 

missionary

work. As a young man, 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

manipulates him into buying her expensive gifts. When Clyde learns Hortense goes out with

other men, he becomes jealous. Nevertheless, he would rather spend money on her than to help

his sister, who had eloped, only to end up pregnant and abandoned by her lover.

Clyde's life changes dramatically when his friend Sparser, driving Clyde, Hortense, and other

friends back from a secluded rendezvous in the country in his boss's car, used without

permission, hits a little girl and kills her. Fleeing from the police at high speed, Sparser crashes




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