Mcteague (NCE): A Story of San Francisco - Softcover

Norris, F

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9780393091366: Mcteague (NCE): A Story of San Francisco

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ISBN 10: 0393091368 ISBN 13: 9780393091366

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1978

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First published in 1899, McTeague was a literary sensation. Its ultra-realistic portrayal of the rise and fall of a simple-minded dentist and his grasping, greedy wife was controversial for its candid depiction of sordid behavior right at the edge of insanity. It remains a searing indictment of human weakness and selfishness in a rapidly evolving America.

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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:

Donald Pizer is Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University. He is the author of The Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism, and The Novels of Frank Norris, among others.

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