Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The market-place, Harold Frederic

Label
The market-place, Harold Frederic
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The market-place
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Harold Frederic
Summary
Published in 1899, just after his unexpected death, The Market-Place became one of Frederic's most successful novels. It offers psychological insight into its hero-the late-Victorian equivalent of Gordon Gekko-an amoral London businessman named Joel Thorpe, caring for only two things in the world: money and power. He prefers to hoard the former and spend the latter
Target audience
adult
Classification
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