The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser
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The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser
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American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles. Dreiser's outstanding works were the novels Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).Dreiser was a committed socialist, and wrote several non-fiction books on political issues. These included Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), the result of his 1927 trip to the Soviet Union, and two books presenting a critical perspective on capitalist America, Tragic America (1931) and America Is Worth Saving (1941).
The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser- Published on: 2016-02-28
- Released on: 2016-02-28
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About the Author 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.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful. The Titan By Melissa M Grosso Dreiser's second novel of a three book series, the first being The Financier, continues the saga of Frank Cowperwood's quest for power and wealth through the use of financial acumen found in only a relatively few individuals. While written as fiction, the novel is also a wonderful history lesson of the political structure and shenanigans employed by the political and financial mavens of that period. The characters and events of the late 19th century are brought to life through Dreiser's rich and descriptive prose. Relatively few authors are able to attain the degree of detail Dreiser devotes to his plot and characters, all the while employing word usage in such as a way as to create a virtual masterpiece.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Volume 2 in The Trilogy of Desire By Bomojaz THE TITAN is Dreiser's sequel to THE FINANCIER, which was about the rise and fall and sudden rise again of Frank Cowperwood, streetcar tycoon of Philadelphia, who at the end of that first volume was leaving Philadelphia with his mistress for Chicago. THE TITAN traces his business success (and personal failings) in Chicago. Through unscrupulous business practices Cowperwood achieves the financial and political power he's always craved, but social acceptance is denied him. He blames this on his beautiful though crude mistress (now wife) Aileen, who adds to her shortcomings by taking to the bottle; their marriage is a disaster, and both have affairs. Cowperwood falls in love with the very young and na?ve Berenice Fleming; seeing herself being pushed off the scene, Aileen attempts suicide. Seeing a chance to seize total control of all the streetcar lines in Chicago, Cowperwood does everything in his power to win the necessary city council approval, but reform groups mobilize and defeat him. He leaves Chicago with Berenice for Europe.Dreiser's power as a novelist, his left-to-the-jaw, tell-it-like-it-is style captures Cowperwood and the financial dealings of a large city perfectly. His blunt approach was relatively new at the time and offended many readers, but to a modern reader it seems the only way such a story could be related. The novel is sweeping and relentless, and the reader can't help but be caught up in its flow. Although THE TITAN was published only two years after THE FINANCIER, the third volume (THE STOIC) would not appear until another 30 years had passed. Cowperwood's character was based on the real streetcar tycoon Charles T. Yerkes.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A great novel of business, Chicago, and desire By GskFn The Titan (1914) is a really, really good and original novel for readers who like Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, as he called it, the second in a series that began with The Financier (Penguin Classics) (1912) and ended with the Stoic (1947). But to me, it's not quite as good as the Financier. Because the Titan loses a bit of the personal in favor of business details. Still, it's so original, interesting, and vintage Dreiser in showing humans as thinking and feeling yes, and also, the animal species homo sapiens, and the acquisitive impulse of wealth accumulation. Dreiser really knows how to pack history, society, and drama into a complex story.One of my favorite moments of powerful drama in fiction anywhere -- whether politics, business, or gangs -- in the movies, tv, on stage, or in the pages of a novel, is here in the Titan. Frank Cowperwood is based historically on the real-life financier and convicted white collar criminal, Charles Yerkes, who moved from Philadelphia to Chicago in the 1880s. Cowperwood wheels and deals his way into controlling a large share of Chicago's street railway system, as did Yerkes in real life. Cowperwood amasses an empire in transportation through innovation and cunning, and in so doing, he horns in on established business purviews of local notables. He moves in on some of the women in local society too, and leaves some behind.Eventually, a collection of Cowperwood's financial foes come to feel cornered, belittled, and embarrassed. They whip up a frenzy of indignation and decide to call some loans they're holding to Cowperwood, looking to knock him off his perch and loosen his grip on their city.Little did they know, Cowperwood had socked away a pile of government bonds in a vault, to cushion himself in the event of just such a financial attack as this. The foes summoned Cowperwood to the firing line. To their surprise, he spoke confidently (p. 425):"A fine night for a conference, gentlemen,' he said, walking toward a chair indicated by Mr. Arneel. 'I must say I never saw so many straw hats at a funeral before. I understand that my obsequies are contemplated. What can I do?"He beamed in a genial, sufficient way, which in any one else would have brought a smile to the faces of the company. In him it was an implication of basic power which secretly enraged and envenomed nearly all those present. They merely stirred in a nervous and wholly antagonistic way. A number of those who knew him personally nodded--Merrill, Lawrence, Simms; but there was no friendly light in their eyes."Well, gentlemen?' he inquired..." (p. 426)For the time being, Cowperwood was secure.It's not so easy to see where moral "right" lies in this chapter. Dreiser puts the question in view, tangled in social trajectories. A mob scene of entitled, local luminaries with money from who knows where, take on an upstart entrepreneurial conquistador, Cowperwood, who also is an art collector, philanthropist, and the story's protagonist who Dreiser portrays empathically and rather neutrally. Cowperwood has shored up the city's transit system, but also, he has seduced a number of women and tries to corrupt the Illinois governor to lock in his railway fortune under state monopoly protection. Whatever the "right," or lack of it, Dreiser shows that "might" -- money, looms large in affairs both public and private.The Audible.com reading by Stuart Langton is just okay. A European accent or maybe a 1920s attempted upper-crust northeast American accent is way out of place, and the reading too often is stilted. Langton's reading is not terrible, however -- it's just not as good as it could be. I've had the experience of reading this both on paper and listening. Thanks to the novel's contents, excellence comes barreling through either way. I'm apt to read this again someday.
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