Author: Frank NorrisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734046432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris
Vandover and the Brute
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734046432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris
Novels and Essays
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Vol. 33.
Vandover and the Brute
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500525774
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
It was always a matter of wonder to Vandover that he was able to recall so little of his past life. With the exception of the most recent events he could remember nothing connectedly. What he at first imagined to be the story of his life, on closer inspection turned out to be but a few disconnected incidents that his memory had preserved with the greatest capriciousness, absolutely independent of their importance. One of these incidents might be a great sorrow, a tragedy, a death in his family; and another, recalled with the same vividness, the same accuracy of detail, might be a matter of the least moment.
Vandover and the Brute
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Octopus
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146324
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Based on an actual bloody dispute in 1880 between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, this tale of greed, betrayal, and a lust for power is played out during the waning days of the western frontier.
Vandover and the Brute
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
McTeague
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
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.
Vandover and the Brute
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781697766417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Vandover and the Brute is a novel by Frank Norris, written in 1894-5 and first published in 1914.
The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris
Author: Frank NorrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780965530910
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Author: Wilkie Collins