Trilogy of Desire

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.