The Octopus
A Story of California
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 pa…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61640-260-0
- EAN: 9781616402600
- Produktnummer: 8567245
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.9 cm 740 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 740
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