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The Financier: A Novel
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This naturalist novel follows Frank Cowperwood, an ambitious Philadelphia financier whose rise through banking and speculation is loosely based on the tycoon Charles Yerkes. It is the first book in Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire and suits readers of American realist fiction.
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser 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).
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