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The Desire Trilogy

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1403 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Desire Trilogy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 1403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Trilogy of Desire is the saga of rise and fall of Frank Algernon Cowperwood through an unscrupulous, self-centered quest for power and wealth. "The Financier" – In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money passing by an auction sale, he successfully bids for seven cases of Castile soap, which he sells to a grocer the same day with a profit of over 70 percent. Frank marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age, and starts moving up the financial ladder, misusing municipal funds with the aid of the City Treasurer. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire redounds to a stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. "The Titan" – Sometime after being released from prison, Frank invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West. He moves to Chicago with his mistress Aileen and his attorney is finally able to persuade his first wife to agree to a divorce. Frank decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with the help of political allies. Meanwhile, Chicago society finds out about his past in Philadelphia and they turn on him. After being unfaithful many times Aileen eventually loses faith in him and Frank meets young Berenice Fleming. "The Stoic" is the conclusion of the Trilogy of Desire. Cowperwood, still married to his estranged wife Aileen, lives with Berenice. He decides to move to London, England, where he intends to take over and develop the underground railway system. Berenice becomes close to Earl Stane, while Frank has an affair with Lorna Maris, a relative of his. Meanwhile, he tries to fix Aileen up with Tollifer, but she becomes enraged when she finds out it was a ruse.

The Desire Series

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781985735972
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Desire Series written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desire Series a combination of Theodores Deiser novels The Financier and The Titan. The story is that of the trials, struggles, and exploits of a family in upper class society of Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

The Titan

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN 13 : 6059496024
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book The Titan written by Theodore Dreiser and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Titan is a novel written by Theodore Dreiser in 1914. It is Dreiser's sequel to The Financier. Sometime after being released from prison, Frank invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West. He moves to Chicago with Aileen and his attorney is finally able to persuade Lillian to agree to a divorce. Frank decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with the help of John J. McKenty and other political allies. Meanwhile, Chicago society finds out about his past in Philadelphia and the couple are no longer invited to dinner parties; after a while, the press turns on him too. Cowperwood is unfaithful many times. Aileen finds out about a certain Rita and beats her up. She gives up on him and has an affair with Polk Lynde, a man of privilege; she eventually loses faith in him. Meanwhile, Cowperwood meets young Berenice Fleming; by the end of the novel, he tells her he loves her and she consents to live with him. However, the ending is bittersweet as Cowperwood has not managed to obtain the fifty-year franchise for his railway schemes that he wanted.

The Age of Desire

Author : Jennie Fields
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143123289
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Desire written by Jennie Fields and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship They say that behind every great man is a great woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned literary secretary and confidante. At the age of forty-five, despite her growing fame, Edith remains unfulfilled in a lonely, sexless marriage. Against all the rules of Gilded Age society, she falls in love with Morton Fullerton, a dashing young journalist. But their scandalous affair threatens everything in Edith’s life—especially her abiding ties to Anna. At a moment of regained popularity for Wharton, Jennie Fields brilliantly interweaves Wharton’s real letters and diary entries with her fascinating, untold love story. Told through the points of view of both Edith and Anna, The Age of Desire transports readers to the golden days of Wharton’s turn-of-the century world and—like the recent bestseller The Chaperone—effortlessly re-creates the life of an unforgettable woman.

Dreams of Desire

Author : Cheryl Holt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101445645
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of Desire written by Cheryl Holt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third Novel of Sensual Destiny tells the intoxicating story of an innocent lady's companion, who drinks a magical potion-and is swept into a dangerous relationship of decadent desire.

The Financier

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Financier written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 19th century Philadelphia and based on the life of flamboyant financier C.T. Yerkes, Dreiser's portrayal of the unscrupulous magnate Frank Cowperwood embodies the idea that behind every great fortune there is a crime. In Philly the protagonist is eventually imprisoned for embezzlement of public funds. He later leaves prison, departs for Chicago, makes another fortune, and becomes involved in still further shaddy practices. You don't read Dreiser for literary finesse, but his great intensity and keen journalistic eye give this portrait a powerful reality. The author wrote two subsequent novels based on the life of Yerkes: "The Titan" and "The Stoic." --Amazon.com.

Palace of Desire

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101974729
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Palace of Desire written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams and desires.

Dreams of Darkness and Desire

Author : B. L. Cagle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737982210
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Dreams of Darkness and Desire written by B. L. Cagle and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paranormal Romance

Bound by Desire

Author : Rosemary Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380754519
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Bound by Desire written by Rosemary Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation continues the saga of Steve and Ginny.

Lord of Desire

Author : Paula Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599955964
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Lord of Desire written by Paula Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Brand Risande is notorious for his feats both on the battlefield and in the bedchamber, but he meets his match in the person of Lady Brynnafar Dumont, a young woman who will do anything to protect her people from their conquerors.

The Stoic

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Stoic written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Duty and Desire

Author : Pamela Aidan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743298377
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Duty and Desire written by Pamela Aidan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ³There was little danger of encountering the Bennet sisters ever again.² Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about the mysterious and handsome hero, Mr. Darcy. And so the question has long remained: Who is Fitzwilliam Darcy? Pamela Aidan's trilogy finally answers that long-standing question, creating a rich parallel story that follows Darcy as he meets and falls in love with Elizabeth Bennet. Duty and Desire, the second book in the trilogy, covers the "silent time" of Austen's novel, revealing Darcy's private struggle to overcome his attraction to Elizabeth while fulfilling his roles as landlord, master, brother, and friend. When Darcy pays a visit to an old classmate in Oxford in an attempt to shake Elizabeth from his mind, he is set upon by husband-hunting society ladies and ne'er-do-well friends from his university days, all with designs on him -- some for good and some for ill. He and his sartorial genius of a valet, Fletcher, must match wits with them all, but especially with the curious Lady Sylvanie. Irresistibly authentic and entertaining, Duty and Desire remains true to the spirit and events of Pride and Prejudice while incorporating fascinating new characters, and is sure to dazzle Austen fans and newcomers alike.

Werner Herzog

Author : Kristoffer Hegnsvad
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144116
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Werner Herzog written by Kristoffer Hegnsvad and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968); Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972); The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974); and Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog became the subject of public debate, particularly due to his larger than life characters, often played by the wild Klaus Kinski. After the success of his documentary Grizzly Man (2005), Herzog became a leading force in a new form of hybrid documentary, and his tough attitude toward life and film made him a director’s director for a new generation of aspiring filmmakers. Kristoffer Hegnsvad’s award-winning book guides the reader through films depicting gangster priests, bear whisperers, shoe eating, revolutionary filmmakers . . . and a penguin. It is full of rare insights from Herzog’s otherwise secretive Rogue Film School, and features interviews with Herzog.

Desire/Love

Author : Lauren Gail Berlant
Publisher : Dead Letter Office, BABEL Working Group
ISBN 13 : 9780615686875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Desire/Love written by Lauren Gail Berlant and published by Dead Letter Office, BABEL Working Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories - especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of the story of love. In this small theoretical novella-cum-dictionary entry, Lauren Berlant engages love and desire in separate entries. In the first entry, Desire mainly describes the feeling one person has for something else: it is organized by psychoanalytic accounts of attachment, and tells briefly the history of their importance in critical theory and practice. The second entry, on Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving away from the parent-child structure so central to psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of context, environment, and history. The entry on Love describes some workings of romance across personal life and commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives. Whether viewed psychoanalytically, institutionally, or ideologically, love is deemed always an outcome of fantasy. Without fantasy, there would be no love. Desire/Love takes us on a tour of all of the things that sentence might mean.

Very Cold People

Author : Sarah Manguso
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0593241231
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Very Cold People written by Sarah Manguso and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masterly debut novel from “an exquisitely astute writer” (The Boston Globe), about growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of small-town America. “Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—The New York Times “Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping “My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.” For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families—the Cabots, the Lowells: the “first, best people”—by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield. As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town’s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm—from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive. In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.

Trilogy of Desire

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795352867
Total Pages : 1637 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Trilogy of Desire written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 1637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Deep Desire

Author : Z. A. Maxfield
Publisher : Lauralyn Thompson
ISBN 13 : 9780998197869
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Deep Desire written by Z. A. Maxfield and published by Lauralyn Thompson. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book hunter buys 500 year-old homoerotic manuscript. The only problem is, the vampire who wrote it wants it back