The Market-PlaceHarold Frederic
The Market-Place
by OpenStories
Original author: Harold Frederic
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"The Market-Place" by Harold Frederic is a novel published posthumously in 1899. It follows Joel Thorpe, a powerful financier who builds a fortune through a rubber syndicate and marries into English aristocracy. After achieving wealth and leisure, he loses his sense of purpose and the commanding strength that once defined him. The novel explores the ethics of money-getting and the role of ambition in modern business, presenting finance as a field for daring and imagination.
The Market-Place, by Harold Frederic. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #298.
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27 Chapters
- 1.Chapter I3,834 words
- 2.Chapter II4,109 words
- 3.Chapter III4,515 words
- 4.Chapter IV4,686 words
- 5.Chapter V4,190 words
- 6.Chapter VI4,404 words
- 7.Chapter VII4,394 words
- 8.Chapter VIII4,558 words
- 9.Chapter IX4,034 words
- 10.Chapter X3,894 words
- 11.Chapter XI4,261 words
- 12.Chapter XII4,720 words
- 13.Chapter XIII4,559 words
- 14.Chapter XIV4,961 words
- 15.Chapter XV4,158 words
- 16.Chapter XVI4,999 words
- 17.Chapter XVII5,371 words
- 18.Chapter XVIII4,656 words
- 19.Chapter XIX4,264 words
- 20.Chapter XX5,406 words
- 21.Chapter XXI4,721 words
- 22.Chapter XXII4,201 words
- 23.Chapter XXIII3,749 words
- 24.Chapter XXIV3,996 words
- 25.Chapter XXV3,158 words
- 26.Chapter XXVI3,252 words
- 27.Chapter XXVII4,177 words