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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 ..." |