Overheard through the thin partition of a private dining room, four Parisian journalists and men about town tell the story of Baron de Nucingen’s rise. With biting wit they explain how the great banker used sham bankruptcies and the gullibility of investors to make his fortune, and how the young Rastignac and others prospered in his wake.
A sharp, brief study of finance and greed from La Comédie humaine. Download the free EPUB.