An American Tragedy

This epic of class, ambition, and murder in the early twentieth century is “[a] masterpiece… America’s Crime and Punishment ” ( Kirkus Reviews ).   Theodore Dreiser’s  An American Tragedy is the story of a weak-willed young man who is both a villain and a victim of the valueless, materialistic society around him. Inspired by the true story of an early twentieth-century murder and adapted into a classic film under the title A Place in the Sun , An American Tragedy follows Clyde Griffith