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3. The Pit
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Epic of the Wheat volume 2
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Project Gutenberg
Language:
English
Description:
The bestselling novel of financial speculation in the Progressive Era from the author of McTeague. Curtis Jadwin had to compete with other suitors to secure his wife's hand in marriage, but after a year of marital bliss, he finds himself captivated by another: the high-stakes competition at the Chicago Board of Trade. At first merely dabbling in wheat speculation, Jadwin soon becomes obsessed with making deals and the roaring excitement of the trading...
4. McTeague
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Publisher:
Project Gutenberg
Language:
English
Description:
First published in 1899, this graphic depiction of urban American life centers around its title character, McTeague, a dentist practicing in San Francisco at the turn of the century. While at first content with his life and friendship with an ambitious man named Marcus, McTeague eventually courts and marries Trina, a frugal young woman who wins a large sum of money in a lottery. The greed of the majority of the characters in the novel creates a chain...
Author:
Language:
English
Description:
First published in 1899, this graphic depiction of urban American life centers around McTeague, a dentist practicing in San Francisco at the turn of the century. While at first content with his life and friendship with an ambitious man named Marcus, McTeague eventually courts and marries Trina, a parsimonious young woman who wins a large sum of money in a lottery. The greed of the majority of the characters in the novel creates a chain of events that...
Author:
Series:
Library of America volume 33
Publisher:
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date:
[1986]
Language:
English
Series:
Library of America volume 196
Publisher:
Library of America
Pub. Date:
[2009]
Language:
English
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