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Pit: a Story of Chicago
Frank Norris
Start Publishing PD · Print & ebook · May 22, 2024
Reading lane: Midwest History
A Fiction pick for readers exploring Pit: a Story of Chicago.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Wheat and Ambition
A wheat-market gamble brings capitalist power, human hardship, and redemption into uneasy company.
Come here for
- Market ambition with human consequences
- A classic story of greed and redemption
Expect
- Corruption and hardship
- A reckoning with the cost of ambition
Book Details
- Authors
- Frank Norris
- Publisher
- Start Publishing PD
- Published
- May 22, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Midwest History · 20th-Century Historical Fiction
- Reading lane
- Midwest History
Affinity
Publisher Categories
The Classics
Romance
Historical Romance
About This Book
The Pit: a Story of Chicago is a story about corruption greed and redemption. Curtis Jadwin a rich and powerful capitalist decides to corner the market on wheat ignoring the misery and pain that this attempt will bring on those who need the crop to survive. Ultimately he has no idea how much this attempt will cost him and what it will take to find redemption.
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