The Stoic (Annotated)

The Stoic, the concluding volume of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, follows the formidable financier Frank Cowperwood as he extends his ambitions from Chicago to London, seeking mastery over urban transit, capital, and desire itself. Written in Dreiser's characteristic naturalist mode—expansive, documentary, morally unsentimental—the novel situates private appetite within the vast machinery ...