by Frank Norris · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140390407
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«The Octopus: A Story of California» is the classic novel by Frank Norris, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (688 pages, in English).
It recounts the bloody real conflict of 1880 between California wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad, in the last days of the American frontier. It is a story of ambition, betrayal, and lust for power around wheat and railroad expansion, and reflects the social and economic problems of the era.
First installment of the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat. The novel was originally published in 1901; this Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Kevin Starr.
For readers of American classics and historical fiction focused on railroad expansion and agrarian conflict.
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. was an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903).
