- Fiction, Wheat farmers, Farmers, Mussel Slough Tragedy, 1880
Nominally, a fictional story of the disputes between a railroad and ranchers in California, it was actually a stern critique of the Central Pacific Railroad based on the famous "Mussel Slough Tragedy" where a shootout occurred between railroad men and citizens of a small California town. The Octopus was originally planned to be part one of a three part trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. Part two, The Pit, was published later but Norris died before completing the third novel.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Frank Norris
- First published
- 1914
- Pages
- 460
- Publisher
- BiblioBazaar, Bentley Pub, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
- Editions
- 180
- Language
- English, French, Russian, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9780837604053
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“Just after passing Caraher's saloon.”
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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