Financier - World Literature Classics Collection (Complete Translation) (Complete Translation)

Author: Theodore Dreiser
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: "World Literature Masterpieces Collection: The Financier (Complete Translation)" is published by Hubei People's Publishing House. Philadelphia is a city with a population of over 250,000, where Frank Algernon Copeland was born. There are some beautiful parks, famous buildings, and many nostalgic historical sites. There were many things that neither he nor we knew until later—telegraphs, telephones, rapid transit companies, ocean liners, postal letter delivery. At that time, stamps had not yet appeared, nor had registered letters. Streetcars had not yet been established. Only many public carriages were available for transportation, and for long-distance travel, one had to rely on the slowly developing railway lines, mostly connected by canals. When Frank was born, his father was still a junior clerk in a bank. But ten years later, when the child began to observe the world with a sense of maturity and liveliness, Mr. Henry Washington Copeland took over the cashier position vacated by his promoted colleague after the death of the bank manager. He earned $3,500 a year, which he considered a generous salary. He joyfully told his wife and immediately decided to move their residence from No. 21 Buttermilk Street to No. 124 New Street, where...