McTeague / Frank Norris

Public ISBD Title : McTeague : a story of San Francisco Material Type: printed text Authors: Frank Norris, Author Publisher: London [England] : Penguin Books Publication Date: 1982 Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics Pagination: 1 vol (XLVIII -442 p.) Layout: couv. ill. Size: 20 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-018769-4 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: 429 Old english 828 English literature النثر الانجليزي (الدراما, القصة,المقالات,رسائل ,خطابة) Abstract: Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, this novel tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague and his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the "American Zola," and this passionate tale of greed, degeneration, and death is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. It is also one of the first major works of literature set in California, and it provided the story for Erich von Stroheim's classic of the silent screen, Greed. McTeague : a story of San Francisco [printed text] / Frank Norris, Author . - London [England] : Penguin Books, 1982 . - 1 vol (XLVIII -442 p.) : couv. ill. ; 20 cm. - (Penguin twentieth-century classics) . ISBN : 978-0-14-018769-4 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: 429 Old english 828 English literature النثر الانجليزي (الدراما, القصة,المقالات,رسائل ,خطابة) Abstract: Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, this novel tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague and his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the "American Zola," and this passionate tale of greed, degeneration, and death is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. It is also one of the first major works of literature set in California, and it provided the story for Erich von Stroheim's classic of the silent screen, Greed.

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