01694cam a22003733u 4500 298 UtSlPG 20260610133029.0 m cr n 260607r2008||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898 The Market-Place Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2008 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_Place Release date is 2008-07-09 Produced by John Hamm, and David Widger "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.) Original publication data not identified England -- Fiction Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction Nobility -- Fiction Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction Stock exchanges -- Fiction Jews -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/298 42426 42426