Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Olympian (novel)









































The Olympian: A Story of the City  
AuthorJames Oppenheim
Country USA
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Novel
PublisherHarper and Brothers
Publication date1912
Media typeprint (hardback)
Pages417
OCLC3715121

The Olympian: A Story of the City is a novel by the American writer James Oppenheim (1882–1932) set in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


It tells the Horatio Alger story of Kirby Trask, who rises from the working-class to become a steel magnate.



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  • Hanna, Archibald (1985). A Mirror for the Nation: An Annotated Bibliography of American Social Ficiton, 1901-1950. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.. ISBN 0-8240-8727-5. 











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