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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...
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An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1959
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- Titel
- An American Tragedy
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Theodore Dreiser
- Verlag
- Dell Publishing
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1959
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Historische Romane, Krimi, Klassiker, USA, Morde, Amerikanische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert, Geschenke für Frauen, Verfilmt, Armut, Verbotene Liebe, Soziale Unterschiede
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1925
- Originaltitel
- An American Tragedy
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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...