Stoic

Theodore Dreiser (1871—1945) — an American writer and public figure, creator of «An American Tragedy» and «The Financier». The ninth child in the family, but three older brothers died. He was forced to drop out of university. Worked as a clerk and a delivery man for a laundry van. Wrote for magazines «Metropolitan», «Harpers», «Cosmopolitan». His first novel «Sister Carrie» (1900) was met with extreme hostility by the puritanical public and critics. In 1944, he received the Honorary Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Literature from the «American Academy of Arts and Letters». He actively spoke at rallies and published in the pages of the communist press in the US. In 1927, he traveled to the USSR and published the book «Dreiser Looks at Russia». 
The last novel of the «Trilogy of Desire» released after Theodore Dreiser's death is «Stoic». The millionaire financier Frank Cowperwood, in retirement after a crash in Chicago, relocates his business to London — and continues to achieve success, but death has its plans…