The Financier
By: Theodore Dreiser ; with an afterword by Larzer Ziff ; revised and updated bibliography
Edition: 1st Meridian printing (5)
Publisher: Meridian
Published: 1995-05
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780452008250
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers; Fiction
Description: 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, relentlessly 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." Her, 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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Notes: Originally published 1912.

Includes bibliographical references.