Frederic, Harold,  1856-1898 <br/><br/>
The Market-Place 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_Place  Release date is 2008-07-09 
<br/><br/>Produced by John Hamm, and David Widger  Produced by John Hamm, and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "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. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>England -- Fiction Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction Nobility -- Fiction Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction Stock exchanges -- Fiction Jews -- Fiction 
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