The Financier: The Rise of a Philadelphia Financier
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A Philadelphia boy watches a lobster eat a squid in a tank and concludes that he now understands how the world is arranged. He goes into brokerage, into street railways, into the city treasurer's accounts, and into the wife of a man whose help he needs. Dreiser built Cowperwood on the real streetcar magnate Charles Yerkes and researched him like a reporter. The prose is heavy and the accounting is exact. Fifty-eight plates of painting, from Eakins to Winslow Homer, carry the same Philadelphia streets and counting-house faces that Dreiser turns into fiction.
A Philadelphia boy watches a lobster eat a squid in a tank and concludes that he now understands how the world is arranged. He goes into brokerage, into street railways, into the city treasurer's accounts, and into the wife of a man whose help he needs. Dreiser built Cowperwood on the real street...
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Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American novelist born in Terre Haute, Indiana, into poverty. A newspaperman before he was a novelist, he was attacked for indecency throughout his career and became one of the central figures of American naturalism. His works include Sister Carrie, A Book About Myself, The Genius, and An American Tragedy.
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American novelist born in Terre Haute, Indiana, into poverty. A newspaperman before he was a novelist, he was attacked for indecency throughout his career and became one of the central figures of American naturalism. His works include Sister Carrie, A Book Abou...
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