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The Essential Frank Norris: The Octopus, a Story of California: The Pit, a Story of Chicago: McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617200816
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Sep 23 2010
Pages: 792
Weight: 2.52
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A collected edition of three major novels by Frank Norris, presenting a sustained examination of economic power, ambition, and social pressure within American naturalism. This volume brings together The Octopus, The Pit, and McTeague, works that trace the interaction between individual agency and larger structural forces across distinct settings.
The Octopus: A Story of California depicts the conflict between wheat farmers and a dominant railway system, examining the consolidation of power and its effects on local communities. The Pit: A Story of Chicago shifts to the environment of commodity speculation, following an attempt to control the wheat market and the consequences that arise from financial ambition. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco narrows the focus to personal decline, presenting a study of character shaped by circumstance, material pressure, and deteriorating relationships.
Across these works, Norris develops a consistent approach grounded in environment, heredity, and economic structure. The novels are linked not by setting but by method, each presenting a variation on the tension between individual intention and external constraint. Together they form a representative statement of American naturalism and its treatment of social and economic forces.
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