Theodore Dreiser

A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, "An American Tragedy" is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Revised reissue.

This extraordinary collection of short stories reminds us how great a talent Dreiser was. A giant among American writers, he fought throughout his career to capture life in realistic terms. In his stories as well as his celebrated novels, he sought to uncover the problems of common Americans at the turn of the century their struggles with society and their dreams of power and wealth against a backdrop of threatening poverty. "Dreiser has no peer in the American short story. As fine as his novels are, they do not attain the artistic wholeness of his short tales. Among the moderns, there is almost no one capable of writing tales like these. The best of today is pallid and non-human when compared with Dreiser s compassionate searchings." from the Introduction by Howard Fast."

Αμερική στα 1890: η νεαρή όμορφη Κάρι αφήνει το χωριό της αναζητώντας στην πόλη μια καλύτερη ζωή. Στην αρχή πιάνει δουλειά σε βιοτεχνία παπουτσιών. Σύντομα ανακαλύπτει ότι για να ζήσει το αμερικανικό όνειρο υπάρχει ευκολότερος τρόπος. Αρχίζει να ενδίδει στις φιλοφρονήσεις και τα δώρα ενός προστάτη. Αυτός ο δρόμος θα την οδηγήσει στην κοινωνική της ανέλιξη.