McTeague
McTeague

Author: Frank Norris

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-09

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13:

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McTeague is an enormously strong but dim-witted former miner now working as a dentist in San Francisco towards the end of the nineteenth century. He falls in love with Trina, one of his patients, and shortly after their engagement she wins a large sum in a lottery. All is well until McTeague is betrayed and they fall into a life of increasing poverty and degradation. This novel is often presented as an example of American naturalism where the behavior and experience of characters are constrained by “nature”—both their own heredity nature, and the broader social environment. McTeague was published in 1899 as the first of Norris’s major novels.

The Essential Frank Norris
The Essential Frank Norris

Author: Frank Norris

Publisher: Start Classics

Published: 2024-03-26

Total Pages: 0

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Collected in one omnibus edition are Frank Norris' three most important novels: The Octopus and its sequel The Pit as well as McTeague.The Octopus: A Story of California is a story of cooperate greed power and abuse. A group of wheat farmers agree to work a railway company's land in exchange for assurances that after a ten year period they will be able to purchase the land at a reasonable price. When it comes time for the purchase of the land the railway company decides to go back on its promise and brings all of their power to bear against the farmers in a deceitful and bloody confrontation. Inspired by Southern Pacific Railroad's action in the Mussel Slough Tragedy. The Pit: a Story of Chicago is a story about corruption greed and redemption. Curtis Jadwin a rich and powerful capitalist decides to corner the market on wheat ignoring the misery and pain that this attempt will bring on those who need the crop to survive. Ultimately he has no idea how much this attempt will cost him and what it will take to find redemption.McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is a novel about love obsession murder and greed. McTeague a young dentist becomes obsessed with Trina one of his patients. The pair eventually marry and descend together into depravity and moral decay. A powerful harrowing book.

The Octopus
The Octopus

Author: Frank Norris

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0486146324

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Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this tale of greed, betrayal, and a lust for power is played out during the waning days of the western frontier.

The Pit
The Pit

Author: Frank Norris

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1605209023

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Like his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair, American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS, JR. (1870-1902) also highlighted the corruption and greed of corporate monopolies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... themes that continue to make his work riveting reading more than a century later. The Pit, first published in 1903, is a fictional narrative of the dealing in the Chicago wheat pit, focusing on speculator Curtis Jadwin, who is so addicted to his own greed that it becomes his downfall. The second part of Norris's projected "Trilogy of the Epic of the Wheat," *The Pit is preceded by 1901's The Octopus, also available from Cosimo. (Norris died before he could write the third volume, The Wolf.)

The Third Circle
The Third Circle

Author: Frank Norris

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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Short stories from Norris's time at the San Francisco Wave (1896-1897), selected and edited by Will Irwin.

Blix
Blix

Author: Frank Norris

Publisher:

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River

Author: V. S. Naipaul

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0735277141

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In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

The Red Badge of Courage, and Other Stories
The Red Badge of Courage, and Other Stories

Author: Stephen Crane

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780140390810

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This novel examines war and its psychological effect on the individual soldier, by following the exploits of a group of soldiers during the American Civil War.