The Octopus: A Story of California
by:
Frank Norris (author)
Kevin Starr (author)
Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West.
Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140187700 (0140187707)
Publish date: August 1st 1994
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Economics,
19th Century
Series: The Epic of the Wheat (#1)
This book merits three stars based on historical interest alone. It's not Norris's best writing by a long shot, that honor belonging to "McTeague" (in this writer's never-humble opinion), and it's further evidence if any was needed that the loss to American letters that Norris's death at 32 was imme...
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