The Golden Flood
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- Read through once to grasp the plot, then revisit the key passages related to "gold."
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About the author
Edwin Lefevre (1871-1943) was an American financial writer active from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, known for his short stories and novels about Wall Street speculation and financial markets. Six of his works are included here: Wall Street Stories, The Golden Flood, The Last Penny, The Plunderers: A Novel, The Tipster, and H. R. These works draw largely on securities trading, speculative booms, and figures in financial circles; their plots are tight, and they dramatize the greed, calculation, and risk of the market in concise, vivid prose. Because public information is limited, details of his life and career cannot be confirmed, but the works above show that he knew Wall Street's operations and atmosphere well. His writing is representative of popular financial literature and offers lively material for understanding early American financial culture.
