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    N B C University Theater: An American Tragedy
    N B C University Theater: An American Tragedy
    N B C University Theater: An American Tragedy
    Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

    N B C University Theater: An American Tragedy

    Written by Theodore Dreiser

    Narrated by George Montgomery

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    About this audiobook

    'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.

    Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.

    In its later years it also included short stories and plays and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award.

    Unlike many other radio shows University Theatre did not pursue the glamourous stars for its productions but instead relied on excellent distillations of the novels and first class acting alongside high production values.

    But now its time to enjoy these timeless novels. Let’s begin.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateSep 1, 2019
    ISBN9781787808508
    N B C University Theater: An American Tragedy
    Author

    Theodore Dreiser

    The Indiana-born Dreiser (1871-1945) has never cut a dashing or romantic swath through American literature. He has no Pulitzer or Nobel Prize to signify his importance. Yet he remains for myriad reasons: his novels are often larger than life, rugged, and defy the norms of conventional morality and organized religion. They are unapologetic in their sexual candor--in fact, outrightly frank--and challenge even modern readers. The brooding force of Dreiser’ s writing casts a dark shadow across American letters. Here in <i>An American Tragedy</i>, Dreiser shows us the flip side of The American Dream in a gathering storm that echoes with all of the power and force of Dostoevsky’ s <i>Crime and Punishment</i>. Inspired by the writings of Balzac and the ideas of Spenser and Freud, Dreiser went on to become one of America’ s best naturalist writers. <i>An American Tragedy</i> is testimony to the strength of Dreiser’ s work: it retains all of its original intensity and force.

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