The Financier: A Novel

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Out of prison in little more than a year, Cowperwood recoups his fortune during the panic of and moves to Chicago. The remaining two novels follow Cowperwood in Chicago and to London through a series of shady deals, love affairs, and intrigues until, after his death, his empire collapses and his life is seen to have been meaningless. We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind.

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Learn More in these related Britannica articles: The Financier and The Titan are the first two novels of a trilogy dealing with the career of the lateth century American financier and traction tycoon Charles T. Yerkes, who is cast in fictionalized form as Frank Cowperwood. As Cowperwood successfully plots monopolistic…. Yerkes started as a clerk at a Philadelphia commission broker, and by he was able to purchase his own banking…. Theodore Dreiser, novelist who was the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. He was the leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter.

Among other themes, his….

American literature, the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a half, America was merely a group of colonies scattered….

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