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An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1925
Pages
Pages 880

A poor young man climbs toward wealth and a rich girl's love, and rows the factory girl carrying his child out onto a lake meaning to be rid of her. She drowns anyway, and his own ambition sends him to the electric chair.

Dusk—of a summer night.
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

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