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An American Tragedy

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A powerful realist novel of ambition, desire, class pressure, crime, and moral collapse.

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An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy follows Clyde Griffiths through poverty, social hunger, romance, and a fatal crime shaped by class aspiration. Dreiser’s realist method gives the novel its weight: a bleak study of capitalism, status, youth, law, and the American dream turned destructive.

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AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

By THEODORE DREISER

VOLUME ONE

NEW YORK

BONI AND LIVERIGHT

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BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

_Printed in the United States of America_

VOLUME I

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BOOK I

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  1. 01An American Tragedy
  2. 02MCMXXV
  3. 03BOOK I
  4. 04BOOK II
  5. 05BOOK ONE
  6. 06CHAPTER I
  7. 07CHAPTER II
  8. 08CHAPTER III
  9. 09CHAPTER IV
  10. 10CHAPTER V
  11. 11CHAPTER VI
  12. 12scene. Only now one of the couples was dancing to a tune sung and
  13. 13CHAPTER VII
  14. 14CHAPTER VIII
  15. 15CHAPTER IX
  16. 16CHAPTER X
  17. 17CHAPTER XI
  18. 18CHAPTER XII
  19. 19CHAPTER XIII
  20. 20CHAPTER XIV
  21. 21CHAPTER XV
  22. 22CHAPTER XVI
  23. 23CHAPTER XVII
  24. 24CHAPTER XVIII
  25. 25CHAPTER XIX
  26. 26scene of the accident, pointed to it, and called: "Stop that car, stop
  27. 27BOOK TWO
  28. 28CHAPTER I
  29. 29CHAPTER II
  30. 30CHAPTER III
  31. 31CHAPTER IV
  32. 32CHAPTER V
  33. 33CHAPTER VI
  34. 34CHAPTER VII
  35. 35CHAPTER VIII
  36. 36CHAPTER IX
  37. 37CHAPTER X
  38. 38CHAPTER XI
  39. 39CHAPTER XII
  40. 40CHAPTER XIII
  41. 41CHAPTER XIV
  42. 42CHAPTER XV
  43. 43CHAPTER XVI
  44. 44CHAPTER XVII
  45. 45CHAPTER XVIII
  46. 46CHAPTER XIX
  47. 47CHAPTER XX
  48. 48CHAPTER XXI
  49. 49CHAPTER XXII
  50. 50CHAPTER XXIII
  51. 51CHAPTER XXIV
  52. 52CHAPTER XXV
  53. 53book somewhere. I always laughed at him."
  54. 54CHAPTER XXVI
  55. 55CHAPTER XXVII
  56. 56CHAPTER XXVIII
  57. 57CHAPTER XXIX
  58. 58CHAPTER XXX
  59. 59CHAPTER XXXI
  60. 60CHAPTER XXXII
  61. 61scene. The Griffiths having introduced him to their friends and
  62. 62CHAPTER XXXIII
  63. 63CHAPTER XXXIV
  64. 64CHAPTER XXXV
  65. 65CHAPTER XXXVI
  66. 66CHAPTER XXXVII
  67. 67CHAPTER XXXVIII

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