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Books by Frank Norris and Kevin Starr
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  | | The Octopus(Reprint)$$$$ A Story of California (Penguin Classic) Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 1986 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-039040-7, ISBN: 0-14-039040-5 "This is a turn-of-the-century epic of California wheat farmers struggling against the rapacity of the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad, which will stop at nothing to extend its domination. The company controls the local paper, the land, the legislature and, when the farmers organize to protect themselves, even manages to control their representative on the state rate-fixing commission. An unremitting tale of greed and betrayal, origina ..." |
 | | McTEAGUE(3rd Edition)$$$$ A Story of San Francisco (Penguin Classics) Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1982 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-039017-9, ISBN: 0-14-039017-0 "Frank Norris (1870-1902) had a short but productive life; the publication of "McTeague" in 1899, thrust him into the forefront of emerging American literary realism. The story chronicles the declining fortunes of a slow-witted young San Francisco dentist and his avaricious wife." |
 | | McTeague(Reprint)$$$$ A Story of San Francisco (Twentieth Century Classics) Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018769-4, ISBN: 0-14-018769-3 "McTeague created a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1899. Critics hailed Frank Norris as the "American Zola" for his gritty tale of greed and violence set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Yet the novel's ultrarealistic portrayal of the rise and fall of a simpleminded dentist and his grasping wife shocked many readers with its candid depiction of sordid behavior right at the edge of insanity. It remains a searing indictm ..." |
 | | The Octopus(1st Edition)$$$$ A Story of California (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (v. 1) Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018770-0, ISBN: 0-14-018770-7 "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 Octopus"is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: c ..." |