Frederick Norman is the rising star of a powerful New York law firm, engaged to a rich man’s daughter and sure of his future. Then a colourless young typist drifts into the office, and his fixation on her grows until it costs him his engagement, his partnership and his standing, while she remains maddeningly hard to read.
A sharp, unsentimental study of obsession and power from the muckraking novelist, published in 1911. Download the free EPUB.