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Critical reception. Legacy. Works. References. Further reading. External links. Frank Norris. Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre.
Mar 29, 2024 · Norris’s first important novel, McTeague (1899), is a naturalist work set in San Francisco. It tells the story of a stupid and brutal dentist who murders his miserly wife and then meets his own end while fleeing through Death Valley. With this book and those that followed, Norris joined Theodore Dreiser in the
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Frank Norris has 374 books on Goodreads with 30092 ratings. Frank Norris’s most popular book is McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics).
Frank Norris’s books. Average rating: 3.72 · 10,589 ratings · 1,190 reviews · 376 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Frank Norris… Series by Frank Norris. The Epic of the Wheat (2 books) by. Frank Norris. 3.80 avg rating — 2,381 ratings. Quotes by Frank Norris (?) “Always blame conditions, not men”
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The Octopus: A Story of California. Frank Norris, Kevin Starr (Introduction) 3.82. 1,903 ratings208 reviews.
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply 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 and violence as the result of jealousy and greed.
