Mcteague: A Story of San Francisco (A Signet classic) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Mcteague: A Story of San Francisco (A Signet classic) Book

The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A realistic study of the disintegration of character, ending in murder.

  • 0451524217
  • 9780451524218
  • Frank Norris
  • 12 December 1991
  • Dutton / Signet
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • Reissue
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