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Does anyone see a striking similarity of the plot to that of "An American Tragedy"? Though the book is engaging, it seems to me to have some identical events, and this makes it a tad mundane to reread nearly the same.

Forked Radish The Financier is the same thematically as all of Dreiser novels i.e. radical socialism (Dreiser "Praised the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin during t…moreThe Financier is the same thematically as all of Dreiser novels i.e. radical socialism (Dreiser "Praised the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin during the Great Terror" and "Joined the Communist Party USA" Wikipedia), but with the addition of plagiarized and lampooned Horatio Alger elements viz. Ragged Dick.(less)

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