About
"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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