The Titan
Theodore Dreiser
Duke Classics
<p>In this sequel to Dreiser's novel <i>The Financier</i>, the author continues his exploration of the social and economic forces at play in the rise of the new class of super-rich capitalists in early twentieth-century America. Protagonist Frank Cowperwood attempts to leave his shameful past behind and settles in Chicago with his new wife. Will this quintessentially American act of self-reinvention succeed?</p>