Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266722076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Excerpt from McTeague: A Story of San Francisco To act, sluggish. Yet there was nothing vicious about the man. Altogether he suggested the draught horse, immensely strong. Stupid, docile, obedient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
McTeague
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266722076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Excerpt from McTeague: A Story of San Francisco To act, sluggish. Yet there was nothing vicious about the man. Altogether he suggested the draught horse, immensely strong. Stupid, docile, obedient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266722076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Excerpt from McTeague: A Story of San Francisco To act, sluggish. Yet there was nothing vicious about the man. Altogether he suggested the draught horse, immensely strong. Stupid, docile, obedient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
McTeague
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Start Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Start Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146324
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146324
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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.
Novels and Essays
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Vol. 33.
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Vol. 33.
Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
McTeague
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192840592
Category : Dentists
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This is a reissue of the previous 'World's classics' edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to 'Oxford world's classics'.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192840592
Category : Dentists
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This is a reissue of the previous 'World's classics' edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to 'Oxford world's classics'.
The Pit
Author: Frank Norris
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605209023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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.)
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605209023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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 Great American Railroad War
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312667590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312667590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Lasting of the Mohicans
Author: Martin Barker
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035029
Category : Canon (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Why does this book that everyone knows but that few have read continue to be perennially attractive for the media? In answer to this question, this study throws a new light on the idea of frontier and on the meaning of the American Dream.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035029
Category : Canon (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Why does this book that everyone knows but that few have read continue to be perennially attractive for the media? In answer to this question, this study throws a new light on the idea of frontier and on the meaning of the American Dream.