The Titan Contributor(s): Dreiser, Theodore (Author), Langton, Stuart (Read by) |
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ISBN: 143326756X ISBN-13: 9781433267567 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $40.46 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: This second volume of Dreisers Trilogy of Desire features Frank Cowperwood, a powerful, irresistibly compelling man driven by his own need for power, beautiful women, and social prestige. |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.25 lbs) |
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Publisher Description: The Titan is the second volume in what the author called his "trilogy of desire," featuring the character of Frank Cowperwood--a powerful, irresistibly compelling man driven by his own need for power, beautiful women, and social prestige. Having married his former mistress, Aileen Butler, and moved to Chicago, Cowperwood almost succeeds in his dream of establishing a monopoly of all public utilities. Dissatisfaction with Aileen leads him, however, to a series of affairs with other women. When the Chicago citizenry frustrates his financial schemes, he departs for Europe with Berenice Fleming, the lovely daughter of the madam of a Louisville brothel. At last, Cowperwood experiences "the pathos of the discovery that even giants are but pygmies, and that an ultimate balance must be struck." |
Contributor Bio(s): Langton, Stuart: - Stuart Langton is an award-winning theater, film, and television actor. He has been an audiobook narrator for more than ten years. He lives in New York City. Dreiser, Theodore: -Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), American novelist, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and attended Indiana University. He began his writing career as a newspaperman, working in Chicago, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was purchased by a publisher who thought it objectionable and made little effort to promote its sale. With the publication of The Financier in 1912, he was able to give up newspaper work and devote himself to writing. He became known as one of the principal exponents of American naturalism, and in 1944, he was awarded the Merit Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |