The deluge
By: by David Graham Phillips; with illustrations by George Gibbs.
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Description: This story is an examination of capitalism and its impact on the country. The hero, Blacklock, is a stock-market speculator, a rough rascal who mixes love-making with his stock-jobbing. Not only are most of the big men of Wall Street after Blacklock's scalp for its own sake: one of them shares the speculator's love for Anita, and a double motive for seeking his ruin is provided.