Signet Classics</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>An American Masterpiece</b> <br><br> Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Theodore Dreiser set out to create an epic character and?? in the form of Clyde Griffiths in <i>An American Tragedy</i>?? he succeeded. Griffiths is just a Midwest kid?? the son of a preacher in Kansas City?? who tastes a little sophistication and then hits the road seeking pleasure and success. He has his moments?? conducting more than one romantic affair?? until that ill-advised pursuit ensnares him. Then he reads about an "nt" of a young woman and ponders a dastardly deed ... Dreiser spins these scenes with the eye of a master in control of his form. <i>An American Tragedy</i> stands as an American masterpiece.</br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04515315588ollec