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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
McTeague McTeague FrankNorris,Frank Norris,F Norris It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdon… OL1794911W
Novels and essays Novels and essays Frank Norris In his brief career -- he died at 32 -- Frank Norris introduced fresh and sometimes shocking elements into American fiction. Inspired by the naturalistic "new novel" developed in France by Zola and F… OL1794915W
The Pit The Pit Frank Norris,Doubleday,Page & Company,J.J. Little (Firm),Donna Campbell This classic literary critique of turn-of-the-century capitalism in the United States reveals Norris's powerful story of an obsessed trader intent on cornering the wheat market and the consequences o… OL1794919W
Blix Blix Frank Norris IT had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate. Then she … OL1794947W