The novel opens on a twelve-year-old swinging at the top of a hickory above a mountain valley farm, and follows him from that rural boyhood into New York. There he meets a financier who thrives on panics and grows richer with every turn of the market, and the question becomes what such a fortune does to those who live inside it.
The closing novel of Warner’s trilogy on money in Gilded Age America, written by Mark Twain’s co-author on The Gilded Age. Download the free EPUB.