An American tragedy

Fiction. Literature. HTML: Newly released from Duke Classics�??An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser. The pages follow the life Clyde Griffiths, beginning with a childhood of poverty. His desire for affluence leads him to Chicago, and then New York, but the path is never clean or clear. Love, the law, and Clyde's own lies blur the lines between truth and reality in this tale based on a true story.