7 stories
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Upton Sinclair
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1.7K
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237 parts
A suffocating darkness clings to the brick and steel of Chicago, not of shadow, but of grease. The stench of rendered fat and simmering ambi... -
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Adam Smith
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1.3K
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90 parts
A creeping fog clings to the cobbled streets, mirroring the labyrinthine passages of the human heart. Within shadowed counting houses, ambit... -
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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980
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85 parts
A gilded cage of languid decay, where beauty curdles into bitterness and inheritance poisons the soul. The air hangs thick with the scent o... -
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P. T. Barnum
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429
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23 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of a forgotten counting house, where the scent of old paper and decaying ambition clings to the s... -
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George Barr McCutcheon
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386
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34 parts
A creeping fog clings to the shadowed streets of New York as Montgomery Brewster inherits a fortune so vast it threatens to unravel his very... -
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Thorstein Veblen
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229
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14 parts
Dust motes dance in the perpetual twilight of ancestral halls, mirroring the slow decay of a lineage built on obsolescence. The air hangs th... -
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Unknown Author
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2
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1 parts
The narrative traces the interwoven lives of the affluent Jeon family and their extensive circle of friends and associates in Seoul. These c... -