AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

by Theodore Dreiser

$1,250 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. A presentable copy of Dreiser's most enduring novel, in which a young man makes a tragic and ill-fated attempt to break from his lower-class background. Fleeing Kansas City from a crime he didn't commit, he settles in a fictional New York town, where torn between a farm girl he impregnates and a socialite he becomes infatuated with, he unintentionally kills his pregnant

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