The financier
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Publication
2008 - Penguin Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
193,467 words, Calculated
Page Count
505 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL19907238M
- ISBN-139780143105541
- ISBN-10014310554X
- LibraryThing213274
- Library of Congress Control Number2008028582
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number223803398
- Better World Books9780143105541
Classifications
- DDC813/.52
- LCCPS3507.R55 F47 2008
- LCCPS3507.R55F47 2008
Description
The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as The Financier. The second part appeared in 1914 as The Titan; the third volume of his Trilogy of Desire was also Dreiser's final novel, The Stoic (1947).
Description
"A master of gritty naturalism, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall comes to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities-- a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity."--Page 4 of cover.
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