Octopus

A Story of California

Autor: Frank Norris

Jazyk:

Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Cosimo Classics

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů

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Like his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair, American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS, JR. (187...

Informace o knize

Autor

Frank Norris

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2010

Stránek

448

EAN

9781616402600

ISBN

9781616402600

Enbook ID

08806931

Vydavatel

Cosimo Classics

Hmotnost

703

Rozměry

140 x 216 x 29

Kompletní popis

Like his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair, American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS, JR. (1870-1902) also highlighted the corruption and greed of corporate monopolies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... themes that continue to make his work riveting reading more than a century later. The Octopus, first published in 1901, is the tale of a war between wheat growers in California and the Railroad Trust. Rancher Magnus Derrick and railroad representative S. Behrman square off-to disastrous results-as poet Presley, a stand-in for Norris, observes and chronicles the tragedy. The first part of Norris's projected "Trilogy of the Epic of the Wheat," The Octopus is followed by 1903's The Pit, also available from Cosimo. (Norris died before he could write the third volume, The Wolf.)

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