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.
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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
26Chapter XXVI
2Chapter II
27Chapter XXVII
3Chapter III
28Chapter XXVIII
4Chapter IV
29Chapter XXIX
5Chapter V
30Chapter XXX
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6Chapter VI
31Chapter XXXI
7Chapter VII
32Chapter XXXII
8Chapter VIII
33Chapter XXXIII
9Chapter IX
34Chapter XXXIV
10Chapter X
35Chapter XXXV
11Chapter XI
36Chapter XXXVI
12Chapter XII
37Chapter XXXVII
13Chapter XIII
38Chapter XXXVIII
14Chapter XIV
39Chapter XXXIX
15Chapter XV
40Chapter XL
16Chapter XVI
41Chapter XLI
17Chapter XVII
42Chapter XLII
18Chapter XVIII
43Chapter XLIII
19Chapter XIX
44Chapter XLIV
20Chapter XX
45Chapter XLV
21Chapter XXI
46Chapter XLVI
22Chapter XXII
47Chapter XLVII
23Chapter XXIII
48Chapter XLVIII
24Chapter XXIV
49Chapter XLIX
25Chapter XXV
50Chapter L
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