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The Octopus : A Story of California
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Frank Norris's naturalist novel dramatizes the struggle between wheat farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley and the powerful railroad that controls their land and livelihoods. It suits readers interested in American literary naturalism and the social and economic conflicts of the late nineteenth century.
Frank Norris
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903).
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