McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)

Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780451528919
ISBN: 0451528913
Item Dimensions:6067040410
Label: Signet Classics
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Signet Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: August 05, 2003
Publisher: Signet Classics
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Studio: Signet Classics

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The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself.

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