Frank Norris - The Octopus, & The Pit (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Two classics combined in one volume.This edition is optimized for the Kindle.A frequent theme of Norris' work is the idea of civilized man overcoming brute tendencies. His novel McTeague is about a dentist during the early 1900's in San Francisco. It was filmed as Greed by Erich von Stroheim in 1924. He began a three book series called "The Epic of Wheat trilogy." However, the planned third book, titled Wolf, was never written. The first book, The Octopus: A Story of California, is about a conflict between wheat growers and a railway company. The second book, The Pit, is about wheat speculation and the Chicago Board of Trade.