An American Tragedy (Annotated)

An American Tragedy is Theodore Dreiser's monumental naturalist novel of ambition, desire, and moral collapse in early twentieth-century America. Through the fate of Clyde Griffiths, a poor young man seduced by wealth, status, and erotic possibility, Dreiser examines the social machinery that shapes individual choice. His prose is deliberate, documentary, and accumulative, placing the novel within...