Length21h 8m
About this audiobook
The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his lengthy work as The Financier.[1] The second part appeared in 1914 as The Titan; the third volume of his Trilogy of Desire was also Dreiser's final novel, The Stoic (1947). In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts misusing municipal funds with the aid of the City Treasurer. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire redounds to a stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. Although he attempts to browbeat his way out of being sentenced to jail by intimidating Mr Stener, politicians from the Republican Party use their influence to use him as a scapegoat for their own corrupt practices. Meanwhile, he has an affair with Aileen Butler, a young girl, subsequent to losing faith in his wife. She vows to wait for him after his jail sentence. Her father, Mr Butler dies; she grows apart from her family.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length21 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter I
32Chapter XXXII
2Chapter II
33Chapter XXXIII
3Chapter III
34Chapter XXXIV
4Chapter IV
35Chapter XXXV
5Chapter V
36Chapter XXXVI
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6Chapter VI
37Chapter XXXVII
7Chapter VII
38Chapter XXXVIII
8Chapter VIII
39Chapter XXXIX
9Chapter IX
40Chapter XL
10Chapter X
41Chapter XLI
11Chapter XI
42Chapter XLII
12Chapter XII
43Chapter XLIII
13Chapter XIII
44Chapter XLIV
14Chapter XIV
45Chapter XLV
15Chapter XV
46Chapter XLVI
16Chapter XVI
47Chapter XLVII
17Chapter XVII
48Chapter XLVIII
18Chapter XVIII
49Chapter XLIX
19Chapter XIX
50Chapter L
20Chapter XX
51Chapter LI
21Chapter XXI
52Chapter LII
22Chapter XXII
53Chapter LIII
23Chapter XXIII
54Chapter LIV
24Chapter XXIV
55Chapter LV
25Chapter XXV
56Chapter LVI
26Chapter XXVI
57Chapter LVII
27Chapter XXVII
58Chapter LVIII
28Chapter XXVIII
59Chapter LIX
29Chapter XXIX
60Concerning Mycteroperca Bonaci
30Chapter XXX
61The Magic Crystal
31Chapter XXXI
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