Frank Norris

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A Story of California

The Octopus

Lack of self-awareness and a weakness for alcohol lead to the moral degradation of San Francisco dentist McTeague, at the turn of the twentieth century. Reprint.

A Story of San Francisco

McTeague

A Story of Chicago

The Pit

A Story of California (Twentieth Century Classics)

Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco 

This classic literary critique of turn-of-the-century capitalism in the United States reveals Norris's powerful story of an obsessed trader intent on cornering the wheat market and the consequences of his unchecked greed.

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The Pit (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

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Linda A. Cook

Kenai Fjords National Park Historic Resource Study

A Stern and Rock-bound Coast

Mcelrath examines the journalistic contributions by the colorful & significant turn of the century writer, Frank Norris, during his formal literary apprenticeship. As he was writing his masterpiece, the still widely read & often studied, McTeague, he produced in 1896-1898 the short stories, articles & reviews gathered in these two volumes (bound in one). Norris's fiction, written while he was staff writer for the San Francisco Wave range from conventional love stories to gruesome descriptions of the impact of genetic & environmental determinism on his characters, & from light-hearted to decadent descents into "black humor" designed to outrage Victorian readers. His essays about literature define his relationships to the competing Romantic & Realistic traditions that influenced him as well as his loyalty to Zola's French school of writing. His stories are rich in descriptions of the San Francisco social scene, Darwinism, the emergence of the "New Woman," & new technologies of the early 20th century.

The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898

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Moran of the Lady Letty

FRANK NORRIS (1870-1902), best known for his classic novels McTEAGUE, THE OCTOPUS, & THE PIT, is universally recognized as one of the pioneering practitioners of literary naturalism in American letters. Though his achievements as a novelist have been much celebrated, his body of short stories has been almost entirely forgotten. THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF FRANK NORRIS provides the reader with a unique opportunity to rediscover Norris's short stories & includes three stories that were undeservedly left out of his three posthumously published short-story collections. Throughout his all-too-brief career, Norris used short fiction to experiment with style & subject matter, & worked in a variety of genres - parodies, adventure stories, Westerns, farces, picaresque tales. THE SHORT STORIES OF FRANK NORRIS is the first collection ever that brings together his finest & most important stories in one volume. His short stories demonstrate his prodigious & varied talents as a storyteller, revealing the remarkable breadth of his narrative voice, one which transcends his literary reputation as a "naturalist" & "muckraker." Includes introduction & bibliography. Available to trade via INGRAM, BAKER & TAYLOR, BRODART.

The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris

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.)

�This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes "coming out" that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This particular tea was intended to celebrate the fact that Josie Herrick had arrived at that time of her life when she was to wear her hair high and her gowns long, and to have a "day" of her own quite distinct from that of her mother.

MORAN OF THE LADY LETTY

At first glance, wheat farming may not appear to be a scintillating topic for a novel, but in the hands of renowned social realist Frank Norris, this seemingly quotidian activity is transformed into a fascinating analysis of the economic factors that spurred the expansion into the western United States. The first novel in a planned trilogy that Norris never completed, The Octopus: A Story of California is an enlightening and gratifying read.

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