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The Financier


The Financier
I chose to read a novel 'The Financier' written by Theodore Dreiser. Honestly, I had a choice to make: to read Martin Eden (the book which I had already read in Russian) or to read the Financier which was completely new book to me. I decided to give it a go and start reading the Financier. It's important to mention that I enjoy reading such books as they encourage their readers to act like the main characters, to achieve their own success through constant struggles and adversities.
The book cover doesn't contain a lot of info about the plot. It only briefly tells a reader about the author(1). 'The Financier' is based on real-life of streetcar tycoon whose real name was Charles Yerkes.  I reckon the main theme of the book is competition or, to put it in another way, a financial war. It symbolizes Frank's determination in gaining his goals and his desire to have an upper hand over everyone competing with him. He wants total domination in streetcar business. Because of the subtlety of his mind,Frank knew how to effectively deal with finance and make money out of nothing since he was a teenager. It was a child's play to Cowperwood to cope with lots of financial abstrusities, and he already ran his own company by the age of 26.
I suppose my peers would find this book interesting and engaging because it demonstrates to the audience that life itself is a big and constant struggle. The main character shows us the importnace of not giving up when everything seems to be hopeless. Frank is the real example(2)of a warrior who encourages everyone to get back on their feet after setbacks.

The reference pages:
(1)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dreiser
(2)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Yerkes

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  1. had already read in Russian) or to read the Financier – the book that was completely new to me : the dash is used thiis way in Russian,in English a link verb is necessary
    It only briefly tells a reader about: ART
    based on ART real life
    Frank is the real example: ART

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  2. 'or to read the Financier which was completely new book to me.' Correct?

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  3. I've also added the links to the reference pages.

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    1. You mean to the list of references, don't you? Because your post is one page:)

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    2. And about the references: it's not enough to provide the link to the resource; this is what you do in the body of your writing. In the end of your work you need to add full reference details: there is a post in the blog about it at

      https://acdemicwriting18825.blogspot.com/2019/12/referencing.html

      As you can see, it was published back in December last year.

      Please, remember to ADD REFERENCES TO YOUR POSTS! You do remember that without this information you are in danger of plagiarising, don't you?

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  4. The thing is I took the information from the Wikipedia, so it's not just an excerpt from a particular author, it's rather taken from the source that can be added by anyone. Thus, my question is: could you please tell me what I have to do in such cases?

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