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The Essential Frank Norris: The Octopus, a Story of California: The Pit, a Story of Chicago: McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781617200816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Collected in one omnibus edition are Frank Norris' three most important novels: The Octopus and its sequel The Pit, as well as McTeague. The Octopus: A Story of California is a story of cooperate greed, power, and abuse. A group of wheat farmers agree to work a railway company's land in exchange for assurances that after a ten year period they will be able to purchase the land at a reasonable price. When it comes time for the purchase of the land the railway company decides to go back on its promise and brings all of their power to bear against the farmers in a deceitful and bloody...
Collected in one omnibus edition are Frank Norris' three most important novels: The Octopus and its sequel The Pit, as well as McTeague. The Octopus: ...
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McTeague (1899) NOVEL by Frank Norris (World's Classics)
ISBN: 9781523673391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family, who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco. (His first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac.") His best friend, Marcus Schouler, brings his cousin, Trina Sieppe, whom he is courting, to McTeague's parlor for dental work. McTeague becomes infatuated with her while working on her teeth, and Marcus graciously steps aside. McTeague successfully woos Trina. Shortly after McTeague and Trina have kissed and declared their love for each other, Trina discovers that she has...
McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family, who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco. (His first name ...
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The Collected Stories
ISBN: 9789370883567 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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134,68 |
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Moran of the Lady Letty
ISBN: 9781515250098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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27,59 |
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Vandover and the Brute
ISBN: 9781022999749 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,20 |
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Blix
ISBN: 9781505290981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It would be difficult to imagine anything more different from Mr. Norris's last book than this charming little love idyll of ayoung Californian reporter-novelist. Yet it shows the same vivid reality which caused Mr. Howells to point out "McTeague" as an "altogether remarkable book," abounding "in little miracles of observation, in vivid insight, in simple and subtle expression."
It would be difficult to imagine anything more different from Mr. Norris's last book than this charming little love idyll of ayoung Californian report...
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781978438675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The octopus: a story of California (1901). by Frank Norris, A NOVEL: (World's Classics)
ISBN: 9781537537993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was meant to be the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. It describes the wheat industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired to write the novel by the Central Pacific Railroad and the Mussel Slough Tragedy. In the novel he depicts the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers and the ranchers' League. The book emphasized the control of "forces"-such as the power of railroad monopolies-over individuals. Some editions of the work give the...
The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was meant to be the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat...
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West
ISBN: 9781481075800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Essential Frank Norris
ISBN: 9798880915224 / Twarda / 2024 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Pit
ISBN: 9798880919130 / Miękka / 2024 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,29 |
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The Pit: A Story of Chicago
ISBN: 9781612032986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Pit: A Story Of Chicago is Frank Norris' novel detailing wheat speculation and the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building. It was the second book in what was to be the Epic of Wheat trilogy, the first book being The Octopus. The third book, Wolf, was never completed. The Pit follows a businessman who begins speculating in the commodities market on a small scale then, overcome by greed and addicted to the art of the deal power, gambles recklessly in the market while the fortunes of farmers and small investors hang in the balance. His independent-minded young wife becomes bored...
The Pit: A Story Of Chicago is Frank Norris' novel detailing wheat speculation and the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building. It was the...
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A deal in wheat, and other stories of the new and old West, by Frank Norris
ISBN: 9781530852000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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A Man's Woman
ISBN: 9781515250906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781515432074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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149,93 |
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The responsibilities of the novelist: and other literary essays (1903).: By: Frank Norris
ISBN: 9781539615842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre.His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903).Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estate. In 1887, after the death of his brother...
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fi...
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The Octopus
ISBN: 9781481076098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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McTeague
ISBN: 9798880907984 / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Octopus: A story of California
ISBN: 9781544712475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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A Man's Woman
ISBN: 9781515328025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At four o'clock in the morning everybody in the tent was still asleep, exhausted by the terrible march of the previous day. The hummocky ice and pressure-ridges that Bennett had foreseen had at last been met with, and, though camp had been broken at six o'clock and though men and dogs had hauled and tugged and wrestled with the heavy sledges until five o'clock in the afternoon, only a mile and a half had been covered. But though the progress was slow, it was yet progress. It was not the harrowing, heart-breaking immobility of those long months aboard the Freja. Every yard to the southward,...
At four o'clock in the morning everybody in the tent was still asleep, exhausted by the terrible march of the previous day. The hummocky ice and press...
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