A poor girl becomes the mistress of two men in succession because her family needs the money, and loses the first to a sudden death and the second to his family's demand for respectability. Dreiser's publisher cut and softened it heavily; even so the reviewers called it sordid.
Englisch
An American Tragedy
The Financier : The Rise of a Philadelphia Financier
The "Genius" : A Painter Between Work and Appetite
Sister Carrie : A Country Girl Rises as a Man Falls
A Book About Myself : The Novelist's Newspaper Years
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
Gesammelte Werke : Amerikanischer Naturalismus zwischen Großstadt, sozialem Aufstieg, Wirtschaftsmacht, psychologischen Konflikten und moralischer Schuld
Eine amerikanische Tragödie