In the New York of the high-finance scandals, a man rises in a world where great fortunes are made by quietly helping oneself to other people’s money. Around him move a wife who has long despised his subservience and now demands her share, an independent-minded cousin, Neva, who keeps an artist’s studio, and a circle of financiers, servants, rivals and suitors.
A muckraking novelist’s portrait of the gilded thieves of 1907 Wall Street, for readers of Dreiser and Edith Wharton. Download the free EPUB.