The Market-Place by Harold Frederic
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"The Market-Place" by Harold Frederic is a novel published posthumously in 1899. It follows Joel Thorpe, a powerful financier who builds a fortune through a rubber syndicate and marries into English aristocracy. After achieving wealth and leisure, he loses his sense of purpose and the commanding strength that once defined him. The novel explores the ethics of money-getting and the role of ambition in modern business, presenting finance as a field for
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| Author | Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Market-Place |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_Place |
| Credits | Produced by John Hamm, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction |
| Subject | Nobility -- Fiction |
| Subject | Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Stock exchanges -- Fiction |
| Subject | Jews -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 298 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-00298-9 |
| Release Date | Jul 9, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 28, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1159 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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