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It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna's saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Frank Norris
- First published
- March 19, 2004
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Editions
- 291
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781082505959
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“IT was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors coffee-joint on Polk Street.”
Frank Norris, (1870-1902), was an American novelist and journalist and a leader of the Naturalism movement. Norris believed that a novel should serve a moral purpose. "The novel with a purpose," he explained, "brings the tragedies and griefs of others to notice" and "prove(s) that injustice, crime, and inequality do exist." [Source][1] [1]: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/norris.html
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