Trilogy of Desire: The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic

by Theodore Dreiser

Publisher:

RosettaBooks

, 2020

Overview

The saga of a Gilded Age mogul’s rise and fall, inspired by a real historical figure, from the author of An American Tragedy.
 
Inspired by the life of railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, these three novels weave a tale of American capitalism in the late nineteenth century. Included in this volume are:
 
The Financier: Ruthlessly ambitious businessman Frank Cowperwood finds his life derailed by the financial panic of 1873.
 
The Titan: Cowperwood leaves prison and heads to Chicago to regain his fortune—but his past follows close behind him.
 
The Stoic: In London, Cowperwood pursues the opportunity to make a fortune from a new underground railway system, while facing hard truths about the life he has lived and the fate that lies ahead.
 
Praise for the Trilogy of Desire
 
“An amazingly intricate description of high-rolling 19th-century finance.”—The Wall Street Journal

Product Details

• Title: Trilogy of Desire: The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic
• Author: Theodore Dreiser
• Series: The Trilogy of Desire
• Publisher: RosettaBooks
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 1426
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780795352867, 0795352867
• Resource ID: LLS:9780795352867
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T16:49:51Z

About Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American novelist best known for his naturalistic novels. He wrote commercial hits such as The “Genius”, The Financer, and Sister Carrie, the latter of which was adapted into the Academy Award–nominated film Carrie. Besides writing seminal hits, Dreiser was a socialist and political activist who fought for victims of social justice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930.