The Titan (Trilogy of Desire, Vol. 2) - Softcover

Theodore Dreiser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815203675 ISBN 13: 9780815203674

Publisher: Apollo Editions, 1974

Synopsis

Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary? in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyhood was ended. His youth was gone, and with it had been lost the great business prospects of his earlier manhood. He must begin again. It would be useless to repeat how a second panic following upon a tremendous failure that of Jay Cooke Co. had placed a second fortune in his hands. This restored wealth softened him in some degree. Fate seemed to have his personal welfare in charge. He was sick of the stockexchange, anyhow, as a means of livelihood, and now decided that he would leave it once and for all. He would get in something else street-railways, land deals, some of the boundless opportunities of the far West. Philadelphia was no longer pleasing to him. Though now free and rich, he was still a scandal to the pretenders, and the financial and social world was not prepared to accept him. He must go his way alone, unaided, or only secretly so, while his quondam friends watched his career from afar. So, thinking of this, he took the train one day, his charming mistress, now only twenty-six, coming to the station to see him off. He looked at her quite tenderly, for she was the quintessence of a certain type of feminine beauty. By-by, dearie, he smiled, as the train-bell signaled the approaching departure. You and I will get out of this shortly. Don tgrieve.
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Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), American novelist, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and attended Indiana University. He began his writing career as a newspaperman, working in Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was purchased by a publisher who thought it objectionable and made little effort to promote its sale. With the publication of The Financier in 1912, he was able to give up newspaper work and devote himself to writing. He became known as one of the principal exponents of American naturalism, and in 1944, he was awarded the Merit Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Apollo Editions
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0815203675
• ISBN 13: 9780815203674
• Binding: Paperback