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  • The Financier

    Frank Cowperwood is a teenager living in Philadelphia when he comes across a lobster kept in a tank. As the lobster lunges at and devours the other sea creatures helplessly trapped with it, Frank decides that this pitiless example of nature red in tooth and claw is the most effective way of advancing in wealth and human affairs.After making some easy money acting as a middleman for a castile soap ... Read more

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  • Sister Carrie

    Caroline Meeber, known as Sister Carrie to her family, moves to Chicago at the tender age of eighteen to try to make something of herself. Living with her sister and brother-in-law, she quickly finds that life, and work, are hard in the big city. She soon takes up with a traveling salesman she met on the train into town. Months later her eye is turned by one of the salesman's acquaintances, George ... Read more

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  • The Titan

    Frank Cowperwood, a disgraced robber baron, has just been released from prison. After some canny investments pay off, he decides to head west to Chicago, where he can rebuild his fortune and his good name. He takes his mistress, Aileen, with him, and quickly learns how to use his wealth and machine politics to take over the Chicago streetcar system.The second entry in Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 1]

    This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, ... Read more

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  • An American Tragedy

    Ambition, desire, and social expectations collide in one of America's most powerful literary classics. Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy explores the aspirations and inner conflicts of a young man determined to rise beyond the circumstances of his upbringing. As his dreams of wealth, status, and romance grow stronger, his choices gradually lead him into increasingly difficult circumstances. ... Read more

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  • The "Genius"

    A Painter Between Work and Appetite

    A painter of real talent marries, prospers in advertising, and destroys both his art and his marriage over a girl of eighteen. Dreiser's most autobiographical novel; it was suppressed for obscenity in 1916 and defended in a petition signed by five hundred writers. This edition includes all three books and a gallery of 58 plates of painting from 1854–1913, among them works by William Merritt Chase, ... Read more

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  • Sister Carrie

    A Country Girl Rises as a Man Falls

    A country girl arrives in Chicago, becomes first a mistress and then a stage success, and the man who ruined himself for her goes down as she rises. Doubleday printed it in 1900 and then refused to advertise it, the publisher's wife having found it immoral; it sold under five hundred copies and is now the first modern American novel. Fifty plates by George Bellows and John Sloan carry the city's ... Read more

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  • Jennie Gerhardt

    A Poor Girl and Two Men of Means

    A poor girl becomes the mistress of two men in succession because her family needs the money, and loses the first to a sudden death and the second to his family's demand for respectability. Dreiser's publisher cut and softened it heavily; even so the reviewers called it sordid. This edition binds 58 plates of painting with the text, among them works by Edvard Munch, Robert Henri and John Frederick ... Read more

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  • The Financier

    The Rise of a Philadelphia Financier

    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 ... Read more

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