An edition of The Financier (1912)

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An edition of The Financier (1912)

The Financier

First Printing (4)
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  • 3 Have read

America in its most gaudy, greedy, and ruthless era forms the setting of The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, the hero of this extraordinary novel, is more than a match for his times. As he deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, Cowperwood emerges as the very embodiment of animal egotism and appetite, hungering for a fulfillment he himself cannot name, restlessly seeking it in wealth, in women, in power. His climb to success becomes the American success story stripped down to brutal realities - a struggle for spoils without conscience, pity or even final purpose. A work of immense social documentation, shaped by intense human compassion, The Financier is a major achievement of a writer whom Alfred Kazin has termed "stronger than all the others of his time, and at the same time more poignant; greater than the world he has described, but as significant as the people in it." Here, Dreiser, as Professor Larzer Ziff of the University of California at Berkeley declares, "succeeded beyond any of his predecessors or successors in producing a great American business novel."
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English
Pages
463

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1940, The World Pub. Co.
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The Financier: a novel
1912, Harper & Brothers
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1912, A. L. Burt Company
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1912-10, Harper & Brothers
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1912-10, Harper & Brothers
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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 461-463.

Series
A Signet Classic CJ772
Copyright Date
1967

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.D814 Fi12, PS3507.R55 Fi12

Contributors

Afterword
Larzer Ziff

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
463 p.
Number of pages
463

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5550494M
Internet Archive
financier000drei
LCCN
67029733
OCLC/WorldCat
337678, 87850324, 32174
Library Thing
213274
Goodreads
43217560

Work 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).

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The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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