Download or read book The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Publishers Weekly: Those who know Norris (1870-1902) through his muckraking novels, The Pit and The Octopus, will be interested in these 14 stories culled by the editors from among more than 60 tales that he published in his brief life. They include strong evidence of Norris's naturalism and his sense of the primal, the healthy, the rural, as opposed to the corrupt, the urban, the effete. In "His Sister," Norris describes a magazine writer "knowing he'd be more apt to find undisguised human nature along the poorer unconventional thoroughfares." In the autobiographical "Dying Fires," he writes of an author: "he lived in the midst of-a life of passions that were often elemental in their simplicity and directness." The gold in "Judy's Service of Gold Plate" foreshadows the use of that element as a symbol for greed in McTeague. In such stories, one anticipates Norris's influence on John Steinbeck. Even in the more journalistic tales, precursors of Jim Thompson-esque noir, Norris's favored themes, particularly of injustice and class consciousness, persist. Three of the stories have never been collected in book form before, including the experimental "Man Proposes," written in five parts for a literary weekly. These somewhat mannered short pieces describe five couples who decide to get married: the ways they come to and act on their decisions reflect their varying social strata and cultural sensibilities.
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 Ironweed written by William Kennedy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after he dropped his infant son accidentally, and the boy died. Now he's on the way back to the wife and home he abandoned, haunted at every corner by the ghosts of his violent life. Francis; his wino ladyfriend of nine years, Helen; and his stumblebum pal, Rudy, shuffle their ragtag way through the city's bleakest streets, surviving on gumption, muscatel, and black wit. estiny is not their business. 'The premise of Ironweed was so unpromising, that in marketing terms the writer still to this day finds it funny: the story of a bunch of itinerant alcoholics, knocking around Kennedy's hometown, falling out, having visions, trying to pass for sober to cadge a bed for the night in the homeless shelter.' Guardian 'But for all the rich variety of prose and event, from hallucination to bedrock realism to slapstick and to blessed quotidian peace, ''Ironweed'' is more austere than its predecessors. It is more fierce, but also more forgiving.' Quoted from the classic New York Times review of Ironweed, which made it an overnight sensation.
Download or read book A Man s Woman written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Man's Woman is an adventure novel by Frank Norris written in the year 1900. It is a story that primarily follows two characters, Bennett and Lloyd, and the unlikely love that blossoms between them. It is one of three romantic novels by this author who typically wrote about more serious topics.
Download or read book The Third Circle written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from Norris's time at the San Francisco Wave (1896-1897), selected and edited by Will Irwin.
Download or read book The Third Circle the Original Short Story Collection written by Frank Norris and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of short stories all written by, Frank Norris. The books include: The Third Circle The House With the Blinds Little Dramas of the Curbstone Shorty Stack, Pugilist The Strangest Thing A Reversion to Type "Boom" The Dis-Associated Charities Son of a Sheik A Defense of the Flag Toppan A Caged Lion "This Animal of a Buldy Jones" Dying Fires Grettir at Drangey The Guest of Honour
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.
Download or read book A Young Man in a Hurry written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deal in WheatAnd Other Stories of the New and Old Westby Frank NorrisThe time was late in the summer the place a ranch in southwestern Kansas and Lewiston and his wife were two of a vast population of farmers wheat growers who at that moment were passing through a crisis-a crisis that at any moment might culminate in tragedy. Wheat was down to sixty-six.
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 A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories written by Frank Norris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 125 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 the American author Frank Norris. It was published posthumously in 1903 and composed primarily of recently published works. I. The first of the five sections of the story, entitled ""The Bear- Wheat at Sixty-Two"", takes place in rural Kansas. Sam Lewiston leaves his wife, Emma, home on the ranch while he goes into town one last time to try to sell his wheat to Bridges & Co., Grain Dealers before being forced out of the market. At sixty-two cents a bushel, Lewiston can no longer afford to raise wheat and must take a job with his wife's brother in Chicago. II. The next section, ""The Bull- Wheat at a Dollar-Ten"", introduces the two main players of the Chicago-run wheat business, the bear and the bull: Treslow and Hornung. When Treslow had let the price fall to sixty-two cents, Hornung had almost run him out of business...
Download or read book Blix written by Frank Norris and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Third Circle written by Frank Norris and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Third Circle" by Frank Norris is a collection of short stories by Frank Norris with an introduction by William Henry Irwin. The author depicts life in San Francisco, California prior to the 1906 earthquake, especially the "terrible conditions" in Chinatown in the sixteen recitals. Excerpt: "There are more things in San Francisco's Chinatown than are dreamed of in Heaven and earth. In reality, there are three parts of Chinatown—the part the guides show you, the part the guides don't show you, and the part that no one ever hears of. It is with the latter part that this story has to do. There are a good many stories that might be written about this third circle of Chinatown, but believe me, they never will be written—at any rate not until the "town" has been, as it were, drained off from the city, as one might drain a noisome swamp, and we shall be able to see the strange, dreadful life that wallows down there in the lowest ooze of the place—wallows and grovels there in the mud and in the dark."
Download or read book A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time was late in the summer the place a ranch in southwestern Kansas and Lewiston and his wife were two of a vast population of farmers wheat growers who at that moment were passing through a crisis-a crisis that at any moment might culminate in tragedy. Wheat was down to sixty-six.
Download or read book The Pit written by Frank Norris and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.)
Download or read book A Deal in Wheat written by Frank Norris and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book McTeague written by Frank Norris and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is a novel by Frank Norris, originally published in 1899. The plot centers around McTeague (the reader never gets to know his first name), a dentist who becomes infatuated with his best friend's girlfriend, with ultimately, disastrous results. A story of love, marriage, poverty and violence.
Download or read book A Deal in Wheat written by Frank Norris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deal in Wheat: Large Print Frank Norris A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West is a collection of short stories written by the American author Frank Norris. It was published posthumously in 1903 by Doubleday 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.
