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Literary places in Philadelphia

6 places from Philadelphia, taken from the novels that put them there. Every one is anchored to a verbatim line from the text.

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1912
The Financier
Theodore Dreiser
Philadelphia and the making of a financier. Dreiser builds Frank Cowperwood's rise and ruin out of the real ledgers of the city: the banks and brokerages of Third Street, the trading floor of the exchange, the municipal offices in Independence Hall he corrupts, and the great gray penitentiary on Fairmount where he is jailed. It brings Philadelphia into the atlas.
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