The Titan

Theodore Dreiser

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

Out of prison, Dreiser's financier hero descends on booming Gilded-Age Chicago to seize its street-railway system by bribery and nerve, driven by the same insatiable appetite in his private life that destroys his loyal wife, until an aroused public checks even the titan. Dreiser's grand sequel.

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