Book Reading with Rod

Editor’s note: this playlist appears in reverse order so that the listener can ‘read’ each book chronologically. Please scroll down to the bottom of the playlist to find the latest episode.

An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later, abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906, and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette.