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Posthumously published in 1914, Vandover and the Brute is probably Frank Norris's first complete novel, much of it written when he was a student at...

Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based o...

This classic literary critique of turn-of-the-century capitalism in the United States reveals Norris's powerful story of an obsessed trader intent ...

Contexts focuses on the novel's sources and composition. Included are newspaper accounts of a San Francisco murder; a description of Norris' Polk S...

An early example of American realism, "McTeague" was considered truly shocking when first published at the turn of the century. This searing portra...