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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 Octopus, first
published in 1901, is the tale of a war between wheat growers in
California and the Railroad Trust. Rancher Magnus Derrick and
railroad representative S. Behrman square off-to disastrous
results-as poet Presley, a stand-in for Norris, observes and
chronicles the tragedy. The first part of Norris's projected
"Trilogy of the Epic of the Wheat," The Octopus is followed by
1903's The Pit, also available from Cosimo. (Norris died before he
could write the third volume, The Wolf.)
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Blix (Hardcover)
Frank Norris
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R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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A romantic comedy set in turn-of-the-century California. By the
author of "The Octopus" and "The Pit."
Ross Wilber went to the docks to meet a friend. There he made the
mistake of accepting a drink from a friendly sailor. He never
dreamed that he-a member of San Francisco's high society-could end
up drugged, sold to an unscrupulous captain, and shipped off for
the Orient . . . in a word, shanghaied! By a series of strange
twists of fate, his new-found employment proves anything but
drudgery . . . between a derelict ship, a mutiny, and a female
sailor named Moran, his adventures off the California coast are
nothing short of extraordinary!
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Blix (Hardcover)
Frank Norris
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R1,088
Discovery Miles 10 880
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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