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Frank Norris
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Frank Norris, 1870-1902: An Intimate Sketch of the Man Who Was Universally Acclaimed the Greatest American Writer of His Generation
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Frank Norris, 1870-1902
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Frank Norris, 1870-1902
Excerpt from Frank Norris, 1870-1902: An Intimate Sketch of the Man Who Was Universally Acclaimed the Greatest American Writer of His Generation At this time we were all in Paris. When the fam ily returned to California, leaving Frank in Paris to continue his study of art, he began writing me a novel in which all our favorite characters reappeared, re volving about myself, whom he described as the nephew of the Duke of Burgundy. I wish I had space to repeat this story in detail. It was written in the second person, on closely-ruled notepaper, one sheet slipped inside another, and the whole fastened together with a small loop of red or blue string in the upper left hand corner. It came to me ...
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The Third Circle
Short stories from Norris's time at the San Francisco Wave (1896-1897), selected and edited by Will Irwin.
The Third Circle
"The Third Circle" by Frank Norris is a collection of short stories by Frank Norris with an introduction by William Henry Irwin. The author depicts life in San Francisco, California prior to the 1906 earthquake, especially the "terrible conditions" in Chinatown in the sixteen recitals. Excerpt: "There are more things in San Francisco's Chinatown than are dreamed of in Heaven and earth. In reality, there are three parts of Chinatown—the part the guides show you, the part the guides don't show you, and the part that no one ever hears of. It is with the latter part that this story has to do. There are a good many stories that might be written about this third circle of Chinatown, but believe me, they never will be written—at any rate not until the "town" has been, as it were, drained off from the city, as one might drain a noisome swamp, and we shall be able to see the strange, dreadful life that wallows down there in the lowest ooze of the place—wallows and grovels there in the mud and in the dark."
Frank Norris, 1870-1902
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The Pit
Like his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair, American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS, JR. (1870-1902) also highlighted the corruption and greed of corporate monopolies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... themes that continue to make his work riveting reading more than a century later. The Pit, first published in 1903, is a fictional narrative of the dealing in the Chicago wheat pit, focusing on speculator Curtis Jadwin, who is so addicted to his own greed that it becomes his downfall. The second part of Norris's projected "Trilogy of the Epic of the Wheat," *The Pit is preceded by 1901's The Octopus, also available from Cosimo. (Norris died before he could write the third volume, The Wolf.)
McTeague
McTeague is an enormously strong but dim-witted former miner now working as a dentist in San Francisco towards the end of the nineteenth century. He falls in love with Trina, one of his patients, and shortly after their engagement she wins a large sum in a lottery. All is well until McTeague is betrayed and they fall into a life of increasing poverty and degradation. This novel is often presented as an example of American naturalism where the behavior and experience of characters are constrained by “nature”—both their own heredity nature, and the broader social environment. McTeague was published in 1899 as the first of Norris’s major novels.
