652 pages
English language
Published July 27, 2010 by University of Illinois Press.
652 pages
English language
Published July 27, 2010 by University of Illinois Press.
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. 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).