American tragedy. Dreiser T.

Roman, recognized as the peak of the work of Theodore Dreiser. The book, which forms the basis of the cult Oscar -winning film "Place under the Sun." The harsh rebuke of the “American dream”, based on real events. Clyde Grifits, “The average young American with a typical American outlook on life,” longs for at all costs to establish herself in high society. For the sake of a novel with the rich heiress Sondra Finchali, he decides to put an end to relations with Robert, a simple factory worker, with one fatal blow... So before our eyes the “American tragedy” begins to unfold - an exceptional story and betrayal, murder and repentance, illusions And their crashes.