Pleasure Reading ( Theodore Dreiser - The Financier ) 1 - 65

The story begins with the description of the Philadelphia city and one of common middle-class families of it -  Cowperwoods. A middle-ranking clerk Henry Worthington Cowperwood ,and  his wife had three beautiful children,  but the most budding was Frank. From the early childhood he was especially attentive to his father's business and insightful enough. He became interested  in banking and economic sphere when he was only 10 and he was involved in the entrepreneurial crafts when he was only 13.  He was a real leader , brave and terse, beautifully built, confident and purposeful young man.
 One day, his ankle from Cuba, Seneca Davis arrived  to meet their family, and it was a planter, slave owner and quite financially established man, that was extremely confident, that young Frank would be able to be a great financier  one day and gave boy a gold coin of 10 dollars. And of course, Frank, as a farsighted person decided to put the money into circulation. His first business was buying party of castalvanian soap at auction and reselling it to the nearest regular store at a higher price and with  some nice benefit. After successful  deal, he told his father about first economic steps in the adult world and Mr.  Cowperwood was  pleased.
   The time passed, Frank was at the age of 17, working in the office for processing transactions in grain business for Mr Waterman and his sons-companions. The experience of a real job was practically important for young Frank and he had a chance to improve his skills and gain knowledge , to communicate with many different new people - brokers, dealers, bank clerks, small business owners, lenders. He did his work so perfect, that the rumors  about a dignified son of a respected father  began to circulate in the middle-range society of Philadelphia.
 After the death of his ankle Seneca,  the part of his business and material possessions came to Frank, and he finally decided to change his future job-direction and perspectives and at the age of 19 not without a light sorrow , had to leave his office.  His dream was to become a broker, to plunge into the world of betting and checks, the rapid decline of shares, changes in the growth of quotations to be always in perpetual motion, and to stay afloat and so he came to Mr' Tai's office.
  And in that time he fell in love with a young lady , a wife of Mr. Sample - an owner of a shoe store. He couldn't his feeling, because he used to trust his self-consciousness, to think carefully and frisky, but his heart was against his mind.