A Chicago wheat speculator's ruthless corner on the grain market enriches and then consumes him, while his wife Laura drifts toward an artist even as her husband's empire collapses around them.
Books mentioned in The Pit (3)
The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats: “where he read to them "Saint Agnes Eve," "Sordello," "The Light of Asia"--poems which, with their inversions, obscurities”
Sordello by Robert Browning: “…of a specified afternoon once a week, spent in his studio in the Fine Arts' Building on the Lake Front, where he read to them "Saint Agnes Eve," "Sordello," "The Light of Asia"--poems which, with their inversions, obscurities, and astonishing arabesques of rhetoric, left Aunt Wess' bewildered,…”
Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold: “…afternoon once a week, spent in his studio in the Fine Arts' Building on the Lake Front, where he read to them "Saint Agnes Eve," "Sordello," "The Light of Asia"--poems which, with their inversions, obscurities, and astonishing arabesques of rhetoric, left Aunt Wess' bewildered, breathless, all…”