Trilogy of Desire
The Trilogy of Desire is a series of three novels by Theodore Dreiser:
- The Financier (1912);
- The Titan (1914);
- The Stoic (1947).
The protagonist of the trilogy, Frank Algernon Cowperwood, was modeled after financier Charles Tyson Yerkes. The novels narrate his rise and fall through an unscrupulous, self-centered quest for power and wealth.
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