The Titan (Annotated)

The Titan, the second novel in Theodore Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire," continues the rise of Frank Cowperwood after the scandals of The Financier, relocating his ambitions to the booming, corruptible energies of late-nineteenth-century Chicago. Dreiser renders the worlds of street railways, municipal politics, finance, and sexual intrigue in a dense naturalist style, at once documentary and psycho...