The Financier

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.

• Author
• Theodore Dreiser, Larzer Ziff

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 528

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-310554-1

• EAN
• 9780143105541

• Release date
• 2009