McTeague A Story of San Francisco (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Norris, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199554897 ISBN 13: 9780199554898

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2009

Synopsis

McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, it tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague, his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption.

Norris is often considered to be the `American Zola', and this is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. With its compelling portrayal of human nature at its most basic level, McTeague is a gripping and passionate tale of greed, degeneration and death. It is also one of the first major works of literature to set in California, and it provided the story for Erich von Stroheim's classic of the silent screen, Greed.

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Review:

One of the great works of the modern American imagination. Alfred Kazin " -One of the great works of the modern American imagination.---Alfred Kazin "One of the great works of the modern American imagination."--Alfred Kazin

About the Author:

The editor of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in World's Classics, Frank Norris is Professor of English at Texas A & M University.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199554897
• ISBN 13: 9780199554898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Loving Jerome