The Pit
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
This powerful novel is the fictitious narrative of a deal in the Chicago wheat pit and holds the reader from the beginning. In a masterly way the author has grasped the essential spirit of the great city by the lakes.
Customer Reviews
Populist View of Trading Well Crafted
Much in the same way he took on the railroad monopolies in The Octopus, Frank Norris rakes the notion of speculation through the coals in this well-written tome. More turgid and overwrought than truly informative, he lays out the pitfalls of speculative grain trading, while never once setting forth the permanent prosperity that unregulated commerce has provided the vast majority of participants who chose to risk their own capital on a chance of increasing it, while providing a way for those content to merely labor for a wage, a much better standard of living than they would have had without such investors.