The Financier


Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)

(4.7 stars; 57 reviews)

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts embezzling municipal funds. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire redounds to a stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. Although he attempts to browbeat his way out of being sentenced to jail by intimidating Mr Stener, politicians from the Republican Party use their influence to use him as a scapegoat for their own corrupt practices. Meanwhile, he has an affair with Aileen Butler, a young girl, subsequent to losing faith in his wife. She vows to wait for him after his jail sentence. Her father, Mr Butler dies; she grows apart from her family. Frank divorces his wife. Sometime after being released, he invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West. (Introduction by Wikipedia) This is Book 1 of Trilogy of Desire. (21 hr 49 min)

Kapitel

01 - Chapter 01 14:45 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
02 - Chapter 02 18:30 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
03 - Chapter 03 25:54 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
04 - Chapter 04 14:50 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
05 - Chapter 05 12:03 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
06 - Chapter 06 23:43 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
07 - Chapter 07 16:28 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
08 - Chapter 08 11:05 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
09 - Chapter 09 6:42 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
10 - Chapter 10 23:03 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
11 - Chapter 11 19:58 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
12 - Chapter 12 19:15 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
13 - Chapter 13 21:44 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
14 - Chapter 14 30:26 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
15 - Chapter 15 16:16 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
16 - Chapter 16 15:56 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
17 - Chapter 17 27:36 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
18 - Chapter 18 19:08 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
19 - Chapter 19 13:39 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
20 - Chapter 20 17:01 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
21 - Chapter 21 27:35 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
22 - Chapter 22 24:54 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
23 - Chapter 23 33:13 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
24 - Chapter 24 11:19 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
25 - Chapter 25 1:05:40 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
26 - Chapter 26 28:42 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
27 - Chapter 27 21:30 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
28 - Chapter 28 17:23 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
29 - Chapter 29 17:26 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
30 - Chapter 30 14:30 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
31 - Chapter 31 10:29 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
32 - Chapter 32 20:01 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
33 - Chapter 33 28:28 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
34 - Chapter 34 19:55 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
35 - Chapter 35 21:40 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
36 - Chapter 36 30:55 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
37 - Chapter 37 26:42 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
38 - Chapter 38 29:03 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
39 - Chapter 39 16:53 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
40 - Chapter 40 16:17 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
41 - Chapter 41 23:46 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
42 - Chapter 42 20:21 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
43 - Chapter 43 49:04 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
44 - Chapter 44 21:32 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
45 - Chapter 45 11:23 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
46 - Chapter 46 29:15 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
47 - Chapter 47 16:28 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
48 - Chapter 48 18:21 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
49 - Chapter 49 18:19 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
50 - Chapter 50 13:28 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
51 - Chapter 51 6:57 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
52 - Chapter 52 27:15 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
53 - Chapter 53 43:00 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
54 - Chapter 54 32:01 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
55 - Chapter 55 26:15 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
56 - Chapter 56 23:54 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
57 - Chapter 57 23:56 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
58 - Chapter 58 23:09 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
59 - Chapter 59 22:19 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
60 - Concerning Mycteroperca Bonaci 4:46 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
61 - The Magic Crystal 3:06 Gelesen von Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)

Bewertungen

Wonderful


(5 stars)

Thank you for posting this absolutely excellent reading of a truly brilliant novel - great pick - I REALLY hope you read the entire Dreiser "Trilogy of Desire"! Very glad to have come across this recent reading.

There's no chance of recording the *entire* trilogy, I'm afraid.


(0 stars)

At least not for a very long time. These servers are in the U.S., so U.S. copyright law is applied at LibriVox, and works first copyrighted after January 1, 1923 and whose copyrights were renewed are protected until 95 years after their publication date. Dreiser's final novel in the trilogy, "The Stoic", was first published in 1947, meaning it will not be available for us to record until 2043. But on the bright side, "The Titan", the sequel to this novel, is well within the public domain and has been recorded by the same reader.

Dreiser knew human nature, business and society


(5 stars)

Richard Killmer's forthright and steady reading brings this character into clear focus. Dreiser describes n good detail the nature and mind of one who becomes, as the saying goes, a captain of industry in the American 1860s to '70s. It could have been written today.

great narrator


(4 stars)

it's a bit slower than our fast paced movies now days, but quite a lot happens in the story. I really enjoyed listening to it. the writer painted a vivid picture of the life of an "incredible" man

Really good


(5 stars)

Thank you R. Kilmer. Fascinating story with a fabulous reader - need I say more?


(5 stars)

Richard at his brilliant best I really enjoyed it

Here are my Five stars.


(5 stars)

Excellent.