Finansist
Theodore Dreiser
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Amerikanskiy romanist Teodor Drayzer davno zanyal pochetnoe mesto sredi klassikov mirovoy literatury. Tema bol'shogo biznesa, lyudey, kak preuspevshih v nem, tak i poterpevshih fiasko, privlekala vnimanie T. Drayzera eshche v te gody, kogda on zanimalsya zhurnalistikoy. Vremya v romane prostiraetsya ot serediny 1850-h do 1873 goda. Syn skromnogo bankovskogo sluzhashchego, Frenk Kaupervud s otrochestva demonstriruet isklyuchitel'nye sposobnosti k denezhnym operaciyam. Bezukoriznennye manery, bezuprechnyy vkus i privlekatel'naya vneshnost' takzhe sposobstvuyut uspekhu novoyavlennogo bankira. I vdrug v odnochas'e vse rushitsya. Bankrotstvo, vrazhda magnatov, privodyat Frenka Kaupervuda na skam'yu podsudimyh, a tam i v tyur'mu. Iz etoy skhvatki Kaupervud vyhodit pobeditelem. Neobyatnye prostory novoy zhizni otkryvayutsya pered nim…'