Amerikanskaia tragediia - Draizer Teodor

"No one creates tragedies - life creates them. Writers only portray them," argued Theodore Dreiser. In 1925 he presented an exceptional story of love and betrayal, murder and remorse, illusions and their collapse.
Clyde Griffiths, "the average young American with a typically American outlook on life," craves to establish himself in high society at all costs. For the sake of a romance with a rich heiress Sondra Finchley, he decides to put an end to the relationship with Roberta, a simple factory worker, one fatal blow ...
"American Tragedy" - based on real events, the harsh "American Dream" - became the pinnacle of Dreiser's work and formed the basis of the film "A Place in the Sun" with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in the lead roles, which won six Academy Awards.