Pauline Gardiner arrives in an Indiana town’s public school as the daughter of its richest family, and the narrator and his classmates watch her grow into a striking young woman. She marries John Dumont, a magnetic and unscrupulous speculator, while Hampden Scarborough, the earnest reformer who loves her, climbs toward political power.
A muckraking novelist’s study of money, marriage and character in the age of the trusts, published in 1904. Download the free EPUB.