The Financier
Book formats
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Theodore Dreiser, Larzer Ziff
- Pages
- 528
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- April 2, 2009
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-310554-1
- GTIN
- 9780143105541
- Weight, g
- 410
About
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 come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities-a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreiser's 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as well as a devastating character study of one of the most unforgettable American businessmen in twentieth-century literature.