Reginald Wright Kauffman, the muckraking author of The House of Bondage, sets this 1913 novel among New York lawyers, apartment houses and subway crowds, where a young man’s ambitions meet the hidden machinery of money and power. Its epigraphs, a socialist battle-song and lines from Whitman, signal where his sympathies lie.
A Progressive-era novel of conscience for readers interested in American social fiction before 1914. Download the free EPUB.