Stoic

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) is a famous American writer and public figure, whose works have been admired by readers all over the world for more than a hundred years. "The Stoic" (1947) is the third, final novel of the legendary "Trilogy of Desire", a large-scale story about the dizzying career of a financier, which is based on the life story of the American millionaire Charles Yerkes.
Frank Copperwood is a brilliant entrepreneur with an unerring business sense, having tried all the possibilities of enrichment in the West, he decides to go to England to work on the development of the subway in London. Having become a powerful businessman, Frank accepts temporary business failures and blows of fate with stoic calm, remaining at the top of the financial Olympus... But the reverse side of success awaits him. What is left of a person when "millions disperse like smoke"?...