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The Pit:a Story Of Chicago
[Paperback - 1994]
frank norris
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Classics
Additional Category: Historical Fiction - Literary Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780140187588 | Pages: 416
Shipping Weight: .329 | Dimensions: 5.1 x .94 x 7.7 inches

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This classic literary critique of turn-of-the-century capitalism in the United States reveals Norris's powerful story of an obsessed trader intent on cornering the wheat market and the consequences of his unchecked greed.

About the Author

Naturalistic novels of noted American writerBenjamin Franklin Norris, Junior, brother ofCharles Gilman Norrisand sister-in-law ofKathleen Thompson Norris, about American life includeMcTeaguein 1899.This novelist during the Progressive era predominantly authored works that includeThe Octopus: A California Story(1901) andThe Pit(1903). Although he not openly supported socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist-progressive writers, such asUpton Beall Sinclair. Philosophical defense ofThomas Henry Huxleyof the advent of Darwinism profoundly influenced him like many of his contemporaries. Norris studied underJoseph LeConte, who at the University of California, Berkeley, taught an optimistic strand of Darwinist philosophy that particularly influenced him. Through many of his novels, notablyMcTeague, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," his animalistic tendencies. His peculiar and often confused brand of social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologistCesare Lombrosoand the French naturalistÉmile Zola.

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