"I led the conversation round to Wall Street and incidentally said I
didn't know which was easier for a man, to be a fool or to make money in
the stock-market. I... had always found folly extremely easy-but
successful stock speculation infinitely easier." -from "The Panic of the
Lion" This collection of four interrelated short stories relates the
doings of the Plunder Recovery Syndicate, a group of men who take it
upon themselves to relieve financial villains of their extravagant
wealth. Satirical and provocative, these tales are as fresh and
entertaining today, in chaotic economic times, as they surely were when
first published in 1912. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Lefevre's
The Golden Flood. American journalist EDWIN LEFEVRE (1871-1943) also
authored the short fiction collected in Wall Street Stories (1901), the
novel Sampson Rock of Wall Street (1906), and the based-on-fact
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923).