The Financier


Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

(4.6 stars; 54 reviews)

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts embezzling municipal funds. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire redounds to a stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. Although he attempts to browbeat his way out of being sentenced to jail by intimidating Mr Stener, politicians from the Republican Party use their influence to use him as a scapegoat for their own corrupt practices. Meanwhile, he has an affair with Aileen Butler, a young girl, subsequent to losing faith in his wife. She vows to wait for him after his jail sentence. Her father, Mr Butler dies; she grows apart from her family. Frank divorces his wife. Sometime after being released, he invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again. He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West. (Introduction by Wikipedia) This is Book 1 of Trilogy of Desire. (21 hr 49 min)

Chapters

01 - Chapter 01 14:45 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
02 - Chapter 02 18:30 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
03 - Chapter 03 25:54 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
04 - Chapter 04 14:50 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
05 - Chapter 05 12:03 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
06 - Chapter 06 23:43 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
07 - Chapter 07 16:28 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
08 - Chapter 08 11:05 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
09 - Chapter 09 6:42 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
10 - Chapter 10 23:03 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
11 - Chapter 11 19:58 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
12 - Chapter 12 19:15 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
13 - Chapter 13 21:44 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
14 - Chapter 14 30:26 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
15 - Chapter 15 16:16 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
16 - Chapter 16 15:56 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
17 - Chapter 17 27:36 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
18 - Chapter 18 19:08 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
19 - Chapter 19 13:39 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
20 - Chapter 20 17:01 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
21 - Chapter 21 27:35 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
22 - Chapter 22 24:54 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
23 - Chapter 23 33:13 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
24 - Chapter 24 11:19 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
25 - Chapter 25 1:05:40 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
26 - Chapter 26 28:42 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
27 - Chapter 27 21:30 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
28 - Chapter 28 17:23 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
29 - Chapter 29 17:26 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
30 - Chapter 30 14:30 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
31 - Chapter 31 10:29 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
32 - Chapter 32 20:01 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
33 - Chapter 33 28:28 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
34 - Chapter 34 19:55 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
35 - Chapter 35 21:40 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
36 - Chapter 36 30:55 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
37 - Chapter 37 26:42 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
38 - Chapter 38 29:03 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
39 - Chapter 39 16:53 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
40 - Chapter 40 16:17 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
41 - Chapter 41 23:46 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
42 - Chapter 42 20:21 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
43 - Chapter 43 49:04 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
44 - Chapter 44 21:32 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
45 - Chapter 45 11:23 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
46 - Chapter 46 29:15 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
47 - Chapter 47 16:28 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
48 - Chapter 48 18:21 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
49 - Chapter 49 18:19 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
50 - Chapter 50 13:28 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
51 - Chapter 51 6:57 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
52 - Chapter 52 27:15 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
53 - Chapter 53 43:00 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
54 - Chapter 54 32:01 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
55 - Chapter 55 26:15 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
56 - Chapter 56 23:54 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
57 - Chapter 57 23:56 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
58 - Chapter 58 23:09 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
59 - Chapter 59 22:19 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
60 - Concerning Mycteroperca Bonaci 4:46 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
61 - The Magic Crystal 3:06 Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

Reviews

Wonderful


(5 stars)

Thank you for posting this absolutely excellent reading of a truly brilliant novel - great pick - I REALLY hope you read the entire Dreiser "Trilogy of Desire"! Very glad to have come across this recent reading.

There's no chance of recording the *entire* trilogy, I'm afraid.


(0 stars)

At least not for a very long time. These servers are in the U.S., so U.S. copyright law is applied at LibriVox, and works first copyrighted after January 1, 1923 and whose copyrights were renewed are protected until 95 years after their publication date. Dreiser's final novel in the trilogy, "The Stoic", was first published in 1947, meaning it will not be available for us to record until 2043. But on the bright side, "The Titan", the sequel to this novel, is well within the public domain and has been recorded by the same reader.

great narrator


(4 stars)

it's a bit slower than our fast paced movies now days, but quite a lot happens in the story. I really enjoyed listening to it. the writer painted a vivid picture of the life of an "incredible" man

Really good


(5 stars)

Thank you R. Kilmer. Fascinating story with a fabulous reader - need I say more?


(5 stars)

Richard at his brilliant best I really enjoyed it

Here are my Five stars.


(5 stars)

Excellent.