Финансист / The Financier

Финансист / The Financier

Теодор Драйзер

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Первая книга «Трилогии желания» Теодора Драйзера, «Финансист» рассказывает историю Фрэнка Каупервуда – простого парня из провинциального города, обладающего великолепной интуицией. Фрэнк становится коммерсантом, играет на бирже и попадает в мир роскоши и больших денег, который со временем превращает его из амбициозного юноши в беспринципного, жаждущего наживы миллионера, убежденного в том, что для достижения поставленных целей все средства хороши.

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Теодор Драйзер / Theodore Dreiser

Финансист / The Financier

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Chapter I

A city of Philadelphia, where Frank Algernon Cowperwood[1 - Frank Algernon Cowperwood – Фрэнк Алджернон Каупервуд] was born, was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more.

It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, but many of the things that we and he knew later were not then in existence – the telegraph, telephone, express company[2 - express company – служа доставки товаров], ocean steamer mails.

Cowperwood's father was a bank clerk at the time of Frank's birth, but ten years later, Mr. Henry Worthington Cowperwood[3 - Henry Worthington Cowperwood – Генри Уортингтон Каупервуд] became a promoted teller[4 - promoted teller – помощник кассира].

At once he told his wife to remove his family to a much better neighborhood, where there was a nice brick house of three stories. There was the probability that some day they would come into something even better, but for the present this was sufficient.

Henry Worthington Cowperwood was a man who believed only what he saw. He was at this time a significant figure – tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly – with nice, smooth whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears.

He had a long, straight nose and a chin that tended to be pointed. His eyebrows were bushy, and his hair was short and smooth and nicely parted. He always wore a frock-coat and a high hat[5 - a frock-coat and a high hat – сюртук и цилиндр]. And he kept his hands and nails immaculately clean.

Being ambitious to get ahead socially and financially, he was very careful of whom or with whom he talked.