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        An American Tragedy


        setting

        Albany, New York

        time

        1908

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1925

        page count

        856

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Clyde Griffiths, Sallyjean

        Rip's impressions

        This book is a fairly fast read, written as a journalist may have covered a famous crime, though there is a lot of overwriting, and it lends itself to much much skipping.

        first line

        Dusk — of a summer night.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)