Best Seller The Financier ( Division of Labour , Origin and Use of Money, Real and Nominal Price, Price in Labour, Price in Money, motal, literary, ec
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2021-04-12 01:22:18
Best Seller The Financier ( Division of Labour , Origin and Use of Money, Real and Nominal Price, Price in Labour, Price in Money, motal, literary, ec
by Resounding Wind ebook
2021-04-12 01:22:18
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 by bu...
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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 by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling them back with profit to a grocer. 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.
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