Trilogy of Desire

First combined edition
(publ. World Publishing)

The Trilogy of Desire is a series of three novels by Theodore Dreiser:

• The Financier (1912)
• The Titan (1914)
• The Stoic (1947)

The protagonist of the trilogy, Frank Algernon Cowperwood, was modeled after financier Charles Yerkes. The novels narrate his rise and fall through an unscrupulous, self-centered quest for power and wealth.