The cover page is adapted from Charles Tyson Yerkes, a painting completed circa 1893 by Jan Van Beers. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Beers_(artist)www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Titan
章节(62)
- I: The New City 0:00
- II: A Reconnoiter 10:12
- III: A Chicago Evening 28:41
- IV: Peter Laughlin & Co. 44:09
- V: Concerning a Wife and Family 58:24
- VI: The New Queen of the Home 1:07:44
- VII: Chicago Gas 1:27:44
- VIII: Now This Is Fighting 1:44:32
- IX: In Search of Victory 2:00:15
- X: A Test 2:29:47
- XI: The Fruits of Daring 2:48:46
- XII: A New Retainer 3:07:17
- XIII: The Die Is Cast 3:32:27
- XIV: Undercurrents 4:02:55
- XV: A New Affection 4:35:42
- XVI: A Fateful Interlude 4:52:30
- XVII: An Overture to Conflict 5:17:04
- XVIII: The Clash 5:27:52
- XIX: “Hell Hath No Fury—” 5:58:38
- XX: “Man and Superman” 6:15:31
- XXI: A Matter of Tunnels 6:29:47
- XXII: Street-Railways at Last 6:55:43
- XXIII: The Power of the Press 7:13:45
- XXIV: The Coming of Stephanie Platow 7:46:16
- XXV: Airs from the Orient 8:08:48
- XXVI: Love and War 8:20:32
- XXVII: A Financier Bewitched 8:44:47
- XXVIII: The Exposure of Stephanie 9:01:47
- XXIX: A Family Quarrel 9:23:52
- XXX: Obstacles 9:47:30
- XXXI: Untoward Disclosures 10:06:07
- XXXII: A Supper Party 10:22:44
- XXXIII: Mr. Lynde to the Rescue 10:47:22
- XXXIV: Enter Hosmer Hand 11:04:41
- XXXV: A Political Agreement 11:25:52
- XXXVI: An Election Draws Near 11:47:18
- XXXVII: Aileen’s Revenge 11:59:31
- XXXVIII: An Hour of Defeat 12:27:34
- XXXIX: The New Administration 12:56:24
- XL: A Trip to Louisville 13:18:27
- XLI: The Daughter of Mrs. Fleming 13:40:14
- XLII: F. A. Cowperwood, Guardian 13:52:27
- XLIII: The Planet Mars 14:09:38
- XLIV: A Franchise Obtained 14:33:24
- XLV: Changing Horizons 14:50:11
- XLVI: Depths and Heights 15:11:34
- XLVII: American Match 15:32:55
- XLVIII: Panic 16:00:42
- XLIX: Mount Olympus 16:28:12
- L: A New York Mansion 17:00:22
- LI: The Revival of Hattie Starr 17:16:29
- LII: Behind the Arras 17:45:55
- LIII: A Declaration of Love 18:00:05
- LIV: Wanted—Fifty-Year Franchises 18:23:23
- LV: Cowperwood and the Governor 18:52:37
- LVI: The Ordeal of Berenice 19:15:08
- LVII: Aileen’s Last Card 19:34:40
- LVIII: A Marauder Upon the Commonwealth 20:06:41
- LIX: Capital and Public Rights 20:23:51
- LX: The Net 20:41:08
- LXI: The Cataclysm 20:56:10
- LXII: The Recompense 21:30:43
Frank Cowperwood, a disgraced robber baron, has just been released from prison. After some canny investments pay off, he decides to head west to Chicago, where he can rebuild his fortune and his good name. He takes his mistress, Aileen, with him, and quickly learns how to use his wealth and machine politics to take over the Chicago streetcar system.
The second entry in Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire, The Titan continues the dramatized story of a real life streetcar tycoon, with the character of Cowperwood standing in for the historical figure of Charles Yerkes. Dreiser uses Yerkes’ story to illustrate the magnifying and corrupting influence that money can have on the lustful and the covetous: can society benefit from a powerful man who, yes, does deliver some streetcars, but whose only real interest is sex, money, art, power, and glory? While Cowperwood seems to succeed again and again at amassing wealth and power, he too often finds himself unhappy, while those around him are laid to waste by his unbridled ambition and capital.