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An American tragedy

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Clyde Griffiths, "an average young American with a typically American outlook on life," nephew of the wealthy Lycurgus factory owner Samuel Griffiths, who seeks to establish himself in high society at any cost, has an affair with his cousin's girlfriend, 17-year-old Sondra Finchley, the wealthy heiress of another local factory owner, a beautiful, spoiled, narcissistic representative of the "golden youth" of the city. Craving the ongoing love affair with a simple factory worker Roberta Alden, Clyde decides to put an end to the relationship with her one blow - which will be fatal for himself ... "An American Tragedy" (1925) - based on true events, a crime and courtroom story, a psychological drama and at the same time a harsh rebuke to the "American dream" - became the most famous novel by Theodore Dreiser and the plot basis for several feature films: from the classic Hollywood film versions by Joseph von Sternberg (1931) and George Stevens (1951) to the free interpretation in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005).
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