Laura Dearborn, a proud young woman newly arrived in Chicago, chooses the capitalist Curtis Jadwin over an artist who adores her. As Jadwin is drawn deeper into the wheat pit of the Board of Trade, chasing a corner that would make him master of the market, his wife finds herself alone in a palatial house.
The second novel of Norris’s unfinished wheat trilogy, a powerful portrait of money and obsession in Gilded Age Chicago. Download the free EPUB.