McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

by Frank Norris, Clay Motley (Introduction)

Overview

McTeague is a riveting tale of murder and greed set in the squalid, urban world of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. More significantly, the novel is the premiere document of American literary naturalism and provides a vital glimpse into the turbulent American society of the period. Through his focus on the transformation of the slow-witted dentist McTeague into an animalistic, hunted murderer, Frank Norris creates a story in which desperate characters on the fringe of society are corrupted and destroyed by their uncontrollable desires.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411430570
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Series:	Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	139,391
File size:	683 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Frank Norris was born to wealthy parents in Chicago in 1870, but he moved with his family to the booming city of San Francisco in 1884, where he used the people and urban life of his adoptive hometown as the subject matter for his later fiction. In fact, the central murder in McTeague is based on an actual vicious murder in a San Francisco kindergarten in 1893. Norris is also the author of Vandover and the Brute, The Octopus, and The Pit.