Daily Deals: An American Tragedy and Wordoku

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An American Tragedy
Today you can get the very good book – An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser just for $1.99.

Novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1925. It is a complex and compassionate account of the life and death of a young antihero named Clyde GRIFFITHS. The novel begins with Clyde’s blighted background, recounts his path to success, and culminates in his apprehension, trial, and execution for murder. The book was called by one influential critic “the worst-written great novel in the world,” but its questionable grammar and style are transcended by its narrative power. Dreiser’s intricate speculations on the extent of Clyde’s guilt are countered by his searing indictment of materialism and the American dream of success. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

 Product Description
Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy (1925) is nothing less than what it purports to be — the harrowing story of a weak-willed young man who destroys himself, a villain who is also victim of the values of a deceptive, materialistic society. Dreiser patterned the story of Clyde Griffiths on a real-life murder that took place in 1906, a charming young social climber who killed his pregnant young girlfriend in order to romance a rich girl who had begun to notice him. A powerful murder story, An American Tragedy is much more than that. For Dreiser pours his own dark yearnings into the character of Clyde Griffiths, while grimly charting the young man’s pitiful rise and fall as he pursues empty ambitions to wealth, power and satisfaction. The Indiana-born novelist Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) has never been a dashing or romantic figure in American literature, and he has no Pulitzer or Nobel Prize to signal his importance. His big, rugged novels were shocking in their day — unapologetic in their sexual candor, antagonistic to the norms of conventional morality and organized religion, often banned or suppressed — and challenging still to readers. Yet the brooding force of his writing casts a deep shadow across modern American letters. At his best, in An American Tragedy, Dreiser examines the flip side of The American Dream in a gathering storm of a story that develops with a power echoing Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment. Inspired by the novels of Balzac and the ideas of Spenser and Freud, Dreiser became one of America’s greatest naturalist writers, and An American Tragedy retains its rocky intensity and its devastating view of American longing almost a century later.

Wordoku

With Wordoku you can play this new Sudoku/Crossword game, enjoy 3000 unique puzzles, customize difficulty level, find the hidden word in each puzzle, use intuitive touchscreen interface. Right now the price is $0. You can get this game for free from Amazon.

Get Hooked

Love word games? Discover a new obsession with Wordoku, the addicting Sudoku/Crossword crossover game. You’ll get hooked in a minute, but play for hours and hours. This full version includes thousands of unique puzzles and words for unending puzzle fun.

A New Puzzle

Want a new twist on the classic Sudoku puzzle? Light up new regions of your brain by playing with letters instead of numbers. Whether you’re a Sudoku expert or novice, you’ll pick up Wordoku’s rules in a second.

Each unique Wordoku puzzle consists of nine letters that must appear only once in each 3×3 grid, once on each row, and once on each column of the puzzle. A hidden word is located on one of the nine horizontal lines. Find the hidden word and you’re done! Or keep going, complete the entire puzzle, and satisfy your inner Type-A.

Once you’ve got your Wordoku-legs, up the ante and adjust the difficulty level. Choose from three settings, and see if you’re up to the challenge.

Wordoku on the Street

Play on your ride to work, during a boring lecture, or anytime you need to kill time. The Wordoku app is up to the challenge, with over 3000 puzzles. Pick up the Wordoku app, and you’ll never be bored again.

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