The Financier: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Financier, credited to Theodore Dreiser, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser. Read by Richard Kilmer. 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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Financier
• Author credits: Theodore Dreiser
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 61
• Listed recording duration: 21:49:12

Catalogue topics

• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 61

1. 01 - Chapter 01 — 14:45
2. 02 - Chapter 02 — 18:30
3. 03 - Chapter 03 — 25:55
4. 04 - Chapter 04 — 14:50
5. 05 - Chapter 05 — 12:03
6. 06 - Chapter 06 — 23:43
7. 07 - Chapter 07 — 16:28
8. 08 - Chapter 08 — 11:05
9. 09 - Chapter 09 — 6:43
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 23:04
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 19:58
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 19:15
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 21:44
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 30:27
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 16:16
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 15:57
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 27:36
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 19:08
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 13:40
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 17:02
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 27:36
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 24:55
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 33:14
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 11:19

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