An American Tragedy

Autori

• Theodore Dreiser

Parametri

• Classici
• Gialli
• Gialli & Thriller
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica

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This novel was placed number 16 in the best novels of the XXth century, and is considered a real american classic. The ambitious but ill-educated and immature Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, and on reaching young adulthood takes low-status jobs as a soda jerk and then as a bellhop at a top Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to alcohol and prostitutes, something he starts to enjoy...

Lingua: Inglese

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