Project Gutenberg 2006-07-08 Public domain in the USA. 450 Rittenberg, Max 1880 1965 Rittenberg, M. Swirling Waters Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Swirling Waters" by Max Rittenberg is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Clifford Matheson, a successful financier grappling with the demands of his ambitious wife, Olive, and the moral dilemmas of high-stakes business. As Matheson navigates the pressures of his financial empire, he contemplates a significant change in both his personal and professional life, motivated by a desire to escape the superficiality of his current existence. The opening of the novel introduces us to Clifford Matheson on a pivotal night as he races to the Gare de Lyon, where he faces frustration from his wife and father-in-law for his tardiness. Despite their impatience, he is distracted by thoughts of an important deal involving the shipowner Lars Larssen and hints at a troubled relationship with his half-brother, John Rivière. As Clifford grapples with his weariness from the financial world, he reflects on a past experience involving his brother that implies a struggle between ambition and a longing for deeper meaning in life. The narrative sets the stage for a transformative journey, marked by themes of identity and moral conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 76.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en London (England) -- Fiction Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels 621001 2025-06-08T06:38:51.171846 text/html 631369 2006-07-08T08:56:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 212808 2006-07-08T08:56:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 309080 2025-06-08T06:39:07.415233 application/epub+zip 313935 2025-06-08T06:38:55.975788 application/epub+zip 301400 2025-06-08T06:38:53.852813 application/epub+zip 613272 2025-06-08T06:39:14.801219 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 549336 2025-06-08T06:39:05.713261 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 521352 2022-09-09T05:52:51.122182 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 526407 2025-06-08T06:38:48.444854 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 525841 2006-07-08T08:56:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 196126 2006-07-08T08:56:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 525849 2006-07-08T08:56:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 195943 2006-07-08T08:56:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20428 2025-06-08T06:39:14.966198 application/rdf+xml 15499 2025-06-08T06:38:54.482812 image/jpeg 3801 2025-06-08T06:38:54.170795 image/jpeg 291030 2025-06-08T06:38:51.219819 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog