The Financier

The Titan


The Titan (1914) is Dreiser's second novel in the Trilogy of Desire, preceded by The Financier (1912), and followed by The Stoic (1947). The series is based on the life of Chicago streetcar tycoon, Charles Tyson Yerkes. The accompanying portrait of Yerkes is by Jan van Beers (1893),

. Chicago streetcars

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