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An American Tragedy
- 784 pages · about 13 hours
- First published 1925
- 210 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
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, Chester Gillette.
In 1923 Dreiser returned to the project and, with the help of his future wife Helen and editor-secretaries Louise Campbell and Sally Kusell, completed the massive novel in 1925. The book entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2021.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: a classic, a thriller, and a long read.
- Classics
- Thrillers
- Trials (Murder)
- Relationships
- Crime
- Mystery & detective, traditional
- Thrillers, crime
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
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