Syvänne : Kuvauksia Chicagon pörssipiireistä by Frank Norris

"Syvänne: Kuvauksia Chicagon pörssipiireistä" by Frank Norris is a novel published in 1903. Set in the wheat trading pits of the Chicago Board of Trade, it follows Curtis Jadwin, a successful businessman who becomes dangerously obsessed with grain speculation. As Jadwin plunges deeper into the intoxicating world of market manipulation, his wife Laura finds herself increasingly isolated and neglected. The novel explores how unchecked ambition and greed can consume a man's soul while threatening to destroy his marriage and everything he once held dear. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Norris, Frank, 1870-1902
Translator Sirola, Yrjö, 1876-1936
Uniform Title The pit. Finnish
Title Syvänne : Kuvauksia Chicagon pörssipiireistä
Original Publication Finland: Viipurin Työväen Sanomalehti- ja Kirjapaino-Osakeyhtiö, 1914.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pit_(Norris_novel)
Credits Tapio Riikonen
Reading Level Reading ease score: 53.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language Finnish
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Didactic fiction
Subject Psychological fiction
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Married people -- Fiction
Subject Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Subject Wheat trade -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 70773
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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