Novels and essays / Frank Norris. [print]
Material type: TextSeries: Library of America ; 33.Publication details: New York, New York : Literary Classics of the United States : [(c)1986.; Distributed by Viking Press, [(c)1986.Description: 1232 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0940450402
- 9780940450400
- Vandover and the brute
- McTeague
- Octopus
- Selections. 1986
- PS2471.N684 1986
- PS2471.P695.N684 1986
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) | G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor | Non-fiction | PS24711986 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001556097 |
"Donald Pizer wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Prelim. pages.
Vandover and the brute McTeague The octopus Essays.
In his brief career he died at 32 Frank Norris introduced fresh and sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola and Flaubert, he adapted it to American settings, adding his own taste for exciting action and a fascination with the emerging sciences of economics and psychology. Vandover and the brute, set in a vividly described San Francisco, captures with harsh realism the dissipation and decline of a fashionable playboy into virtual bestiality. McTeague (source for Erich von Stroheim's classic film Greed) was a radical departure for its time in its frank treatment of sex, domestic violence and pathological obsession, revealing the dark underside of San Francisco's new middle class. The octopus depicts the epic struggle of strong, ruthless California ranchers with the railroad monopoly and its political machine. Twenty-two essays address theories of literature, the state of American fiction, and the social responsibilities of the artist. The New York Times said, "An opportunity to read, or re-read, in an authentic new edition, the work of one of the trailblazers in American literature.
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