The Financier
ClassicsliteratureCapitalists and financiersFictionPsychological fiction
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The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more.
About this book
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).
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ClassicsliteratureCapitalists and financiersFictionPsychological fictionTrilogy of Desire
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PhiladelphiaPennsylvania
About the author
Theodore Dreiser
27 August 1871 – 28 December 1945
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.[2] Dreiser's best-known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
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