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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco: A Story of San Francisco
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515432074
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Frank Norris's powerful naturalist masterpiece presents a dark and unforgettable portrait of greed, violence, desire, and social decline in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. In McTeague, Norris follows the tragic downfall of a slow-witted but physically imposing dentist whose life gradually unravels through obsession, jealousy, poverty, and the corrupting influence of money. Originally published in 1899, the novel became one of the defining works of American literary naturalism, blending psychological realism with social observation and deterministic philosophy while vividly portraying the streets, boarding houses, saloons, and immigrant neighborhoods of San Francisco.
Combining brutal emotional intensity with extraordinary descriptive power, Norris explores the primal forces underlying human behavior and the tensions between civilization, instinct, class ambition, and moral restraint. The novel's famous climactic scenes set within Death Valley helped establish McTeague as one of the great tragic narratives of early American realism. Widely regarded as a landmark of American literature, the work influenced generations of writers associated with realism, naturalism, and social fiction through its exploration of violence, psychological deterioration, economic desperation, and urban existence.
Ideal for readers of classic American literature, literary realism, naturalist fiction, psychological novels, urban fiction, and nineteenth-century literary classics.
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