Frank Norris

• 1899
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An early example of American realism, McTeague was considered truly shocking when first published in 1899. This searing portrait of the downfall of a slow-witted dentist and his avaricious wife embodies Frank Norris's powerful insights into confli...

• Feb-1964
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Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The O...

• Sep-1978
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Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today. ...

• Oct-1986
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This Library of America volume presents three novels and the collected essays of the most promising of the American naturalist writers. Inspired by the “new novel” developed by Zola and Flaubert, Frank Norris adapted its methods to American setti...

• Apr-2000
• / Romance
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.IT had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate. Then she went dow...

• Oct-2000
• / Action Adventure
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Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today. ...

• Jun-2009
• / Romance
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Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today. ...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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This collection was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offer...

• Oct-2010
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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 agre...

• Nov-2012
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Published after the author's untimely death, this 1904 collection includes stories that originally appeared in publications between 1901 and 1903.  The title story was made into the film A Corner in Wheat.   Also included are “A Barg...

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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Benjamin Franklin Norris (1870-1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. Although he did not support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless has evinced a socialist mental...

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The story of Frank Norriss The Pit could be taken from todays headlines: a businessman begins speculating in the commodities market on a small scale until, overcome by greed, addicted to the art of the deal, and harboring an ever-increasing appetite ...

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Published posthumously in 1909, this collection of sixteen short stories, to quote from a contemporary New York Times review, "makes evident once more the loss American literature sustained in the early death of the author."  Contents include "T...