The Financier - Couverture souple

Dreiser, Theodore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849021856 ISBN 13 : 9781849021852

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2012

Synopsis

The first volume of the Trilogy of Desire. Dreiser captures the spirit of nineteenth century American capitalism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Published in 1912, The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser, is the first volume of the Trilogy of Desire, which includes The Titan (1914) and The Stoic (1947). In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts misusing municipal funds with the aid of the City Treasurer. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire redounds to a stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. Although he attempts to browbeat his way out of being sentenced to jail by intimidating Mr Stener, politicians from the Republican Party use their influence to use him as a scapegoat for their own corrupt practices. Meanwhile, he has an affair with Aileen Butler, a young girl, subsequent to losing faith in his wife. She vows to wait for him after his jail sentence. Her father, Mr Butler dies; she grows apart from her family.

Biographie de l'auteur

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. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Benediction Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849021856
• ISBN 13: 9781849021852
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 468
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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