Author
Frank Norris (1870–1902) is represented here by 4 public-domain titles, including McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, Moran of the Lady Letty, and The Octopus : A Story of California. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here.
by Frank Norris
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco recounts a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco was the basis for the films McTeague and Erich von Stroheim's Greed.
by Frank Norris
The Octopus: A Story of California describes the wheat industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired to write the novel by the Mussel Slough Tragedy involving the Southern Pacific Railroad.
by Frank Norris
Vandover and the Brute is primarily set in San Francisco in the 1890s.