The Financier

1st book of the Trilogy of Desire series

by Theodore Dreiser

  • FREE
  • 544 pages
  • Year: 1912
  • ~60h 20m
  • ★★★★★

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A young man makes and loses a fortune in Civil War era America.

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Frank Cowperwood is a teenager living in Philadelphia when he comes across a lobster kept in a tank. As the lobster lunges at and devours the other sea creatures helplessly trapped with it, Frank decides that this pitiless example of nature red in tooth and claw is the most effective way of advancing in wealth and human affairs.

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