- Fiction, Married people, Wheat trade, Economic conditions
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. The Pit was part two of a planned three part trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat (The Octopus was part one), however Norris died before completing the third novel.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Frank Norris
- First published
- May 2000
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Morang, Penguin USA, Inc., General Books LLC
- Editions
- 291
- Language
- urd, Russian, English, German
- ISBN
- 9781987577730
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“could discover no pronounced salience. Yet there was no trace, no suggestion of angularity.”
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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