Download or read book Vandover and the Brute 1914 by Frank Norris Novel written by Frank Norris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejected by nineteenth-century publishers for its sordid and shocking subject matter, Vandover and the Brute is a powerful novel of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903).

Download or read book A Deal In Wheat And Other Stories Of The New And Old West written by Frank Norris and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West" is a collection of short stories written by Frank Norris, an influential American author and journalist. The title story, "A Deal in Wheat," explores the volatile world of commodity trading, specifically focusing on the wheat market. Through a compelling narrative, Norris delves into the ruthless nature of speculation and its impact on farmers, laborers, and ordinary people. The story serves as a powerful critique of the unscrupulous practices and manipulation that occur in the pursuit of profit. In addition to "A Deal in Wheat," the collection features other stories that shed light on different facets of Western life. Norris vividly portrays the struggles faced by ranchers, the challenges of pioneers forging a new life in untamed territory, and the social and economic dynamics of the era. Through his masterful storytelling, Norris captures the spirit of the West and the complexities of human nature within its unique landscape. With his keen observations and sharp social commentary, Frank Norris continues to be celebrated as a significant voice in American literature. "A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West" stands as a testament to his talent for storytelling and his exploration of the human condition in the context of the evolving American frontier.

Download or read book Frank Norris written by Joseph R. McElrath and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Chicago in 1870, Frank Norris led a life of adventure and art. He moved to San Francisco at fifteen, spent two years in Paris painting, and returned to San Francisco to become an internationally famous author. He died at age thirty-two from a ruptured appendix. During his short life, he wrote an inspired series of novels about the United States coming of age. The Octopus was a prescient warning about the threat of monopolies, and The Pit exposed the intrigues and dirty dealings at the Chicago grain exchange. Extensively reprinted, Norris's works have also found their way into popular consciousness through film (Erich von Stroheim's Greed), and even an opera based on his portrait of the huge, dumb, and murderous dentist, McTeague.Interest in this dynamic writer was wide and sustained, but Frank Norris and his family did biographers no favours. Norris burned most of his correspondence, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire devoured more, and his brother and widow dispersed his surviving papers as gifts. As a result, it was thought impossible to assemble enough material to surpass the single existing biography, published in 1932. Authors Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler, acknowledged as the leading experts on Norris, have spent have spent over thirty years overcoming these obstacles, devotedly amassing the material necessary to at last fashion a truly full-scale portrait of the artist. Anyone familiar with the breezier existing accounts of the man and hungering for the real story will agree that Frank Norris, A Life was worth the wait.

Download or read book A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West written by Frank Norris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903).Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estate. In 1887, after the death of his brother and a brief stay in London, young Norris went to Académie Julian in Paris where he studied painting for two years and was exposed to the naturalist novels of Émile Zola.Between 1890 and 1894 he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he became acquainted with the ideas of human evolution of Darwin and Spencer that are reflected in his later writings.

Download or read book A Man s Woman New York 1900 by Frank Norris written by Frank Norris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903).Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estate. In 1887, after the death of his brother and a brief stay in London, young Norris went to Académie Julian in Paris where he studied painting for two years and was exposed to the naturalist novels of Émile Zola.Between 1890 and 1894 he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he became acquainted with the ideas of human evolution of Darwin and Spencer that are reflected in his later writings.

Download or read book McTeague written by Frank Frank Norris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916), Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924), and loosely, Slow Burn (2000). It was also adapted as an opera by William Bolcom in 1992.

Download or read book A Man s Woman written by Frank Norris and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin Norris (1870-1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include "McTeague" (1899), "The Octopus: A California Story" (1901), and "The Pit" (1903). "A Man's Woman" was originally published in 1899.

Download or read book The Pit written by Frank Norris and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago Frank Norris (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) The Pit: A Story of Chicago is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris. Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat. The first book, The Octopus, was published in 1901. Norris died unexpectedly in October 1902 from appendicitis leaving the third book, The Wolf: A Story of Empire, incomplete. Together the three novels were to follow the journey of a crop of wheat from its planting in California to its ultimate consumption as bread in Western Europe.

Download or read book Vandover and the Brute written by Frank Norris and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris

Download or read book A Man s Woman written by Frank Norris and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Norris was a late 19th century American novelist writing in the naturalist genre. His most famous works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). His works show socialistic tendencies and were influenced by Darwin and Huxley. His work often includes depictions of suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies. This story begins in the frozen north. "At four o'clock in the morning everybody in the tent was still asleep, exhausted by the terrible march of the previous day. The hummocky ice and pressure-ridges that Bennett had foreseen had at last been met with, and, though camp had been broken at six o'clock and though men and dogs had hauled and tugged and wrestled with the heavy sledges until five o'clock in the afternoon, only a mile and a half had been covered. But though the progress was slow, it was yet progress. It was not the harrowing, heart-breaking immobility of those long months aboard the Freja. Every yard to the southward, though won at the expense of a battle with the ice, brought them nearer to Wrangel Island and ultimate safety."

Download or read book A Mans Woman written by Frank Norris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mans Woman Frank Norris We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Download or read book McTeague written by Frank Norris and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McTeague is an enormously strong but dim-witted former miner now working as a dentist in San Francisco towards the end of the nineteenth century. He falls in love with Trina, one of his patients, and shortly after their engagement she wins a large sum in a lottery. All is well until McTeague is betrayed and they fall into a life of increasing poverty and degradation. This novel is often presented as an example of American naturalism where the behavior and experience of characters are constrained by “nature”—both their own heredity nature, and the broader social environment. McTeague was published in 1899 as the first of Norris’s major novels.

Download or read book Novels and Essays written by Frank Norris and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 33.

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