Catalog / An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
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Theodore Dreiser
Clyde Griffiths pursues wealth and social status until a love affair and a pregnancy wreck his ambitions. The novel becomes a critique of the American dream.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0451530616
- ISBN-13
- 9780451530615
- ASIN
- B0B6G4F65L
Why was An American Tragedy challenged?
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1927. The novel was banned in Boston in 1927 for content judged immoral.
The catalog records the scope as distribution. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was An American Tragedy banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · Distribution
The novel was banned in Boston in 1927 for content judged immoral.
A historical local censorship case documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is An American Tragedy banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1927. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was An American Tragedy challenged?
- The novel was banned in Boston in 1927 for content judged immoral.
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