Theodore Dreiser. Titan (№ 194358)

He really was not without appeal. Relatively young, received in due time, if not education, then education in one of the most preferred American colleges, it is tastefully dressed with taste choosing friends and generally know how to live with taste, and in fact was a rake and a libertine. From a young age he loved gambling, drank a lot, but it almost did not affect his health, swallowed untold amounts of alcohol, he had been except that "tipsy". A considerable place in his life also held a passion for women, which Gibbon called "the most pleasant of our vices." Persistent, patient, brutal accumulation of wealth, who devoted himself to his father, creating his giant enterprise was interested in him no more than the sacred ordinances of the Chaldeans. He acknowledged, however, that profitable enterprise in itself an excellent thing, and liked to sometimes think of big factories, spread over a huge area, mentally imagined the monotonous rows of brick buildings, high smokestack, piercing factory whistles. But to take any part in the dull routine of the control of the whole machine - no, thank you!