The Grain of Dust

David Graham Phillips · 1911 · Romance, Drama & Literary

Frederick Norman is the ablest and coldest corporation lawyer in New York — until an obscure young typist in his own office lodges in his mind like a single grain of dust in flawless clockwork, and the whole magnificent engine begins to seize. David Graham Phillips, the great muckraking novelist of America's Gilded Age, turns his searching eye on a single human weakness: a man who has mastered every adversary, every court, every appetite, discovering there is one thing he cannot command, buy, or reason away — another person's free heart. A sharp, modern study of obsession, power, and the making of a man. Complete and richly illustrated.