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Soon Clyde finds himself in a love triangle of his own making, and one from which he seems incapable of extracting himself.Ī newspaperman before he became a novelist, Theodore Dreiser collected crime stories for years of young men in relationships with young women of poorer means, where the young men found a richer, prettier girl who would go with him, and often took extreme measures to escape from the first girl. But Clyde has visions of marrying a high-society woman, and fortune smiles on him in the form of the daughter of one of his uncle’s neighbors.

All alone, generally shunned by his uncle’s family, and starved for companionship, he breaks the factory’s rules and begins a relationship with a young woman who works for him. Clyde talks his way into a job at the factory, and soon finds himself supervising a roomful of women. Two years later, Clyde meets his well-off uncle, who owns a large factory in upstate New York. At fifteen he gets a job and starts to ease out of their lives, eventually landing in some trouble that causes him to flee the town where they live. „– 16 in the Modern Library’s 100 Best NovelsĬlyde Griffith’s parents are poor street-preachers, but Clyde doesn’t “believe,” and finds their work demeaning. Standard Ebooksģ64,123 words (22 hours 5 minutes) with a reading ease of 68.7 (average difficulty) An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.