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Bentley Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The Octopus is a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised: consolidation, organization, conformity. But Norris idealizes no one in this epic depiction of the volatile situation, for the farmers themselves ruthlessly exploited the land, and in their hunger for larger holdings they resorted to the same tactics used by the railroad: subversion, coercion and outright violence. In his introduction, Kevin Starr discusses Norris's debt to Zola for the novel's extraordinary sweep, scale and abundance of characters and details.
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- Título The Octopus: A Story of California
- Autor Frank Norris
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição 1st Ed, 1st Prin
- Páginas 458
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Bentley Publishers, Cambridge, MAss
- Data de publicação June 1971
- ISBN 9780837604053 / 0837604052
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 76184737
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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The Octopus: A Story of California
por Norris, Frank
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Octopus: A Story of California
por Norris, Frank
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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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Octopus A Story of California
por Norris, Frank
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Cambridge, Mass,: Robert Bentley Pub. Very Good+. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0837604052 . Bright red linen covers with gilt titles to the spine. A tightlybound copy with a bright, unmarked text. Light spine end and corner bumping. This is a Near fine copy. "The first of The Epic of Wheat Trilogy, this book describes the raising of wheat in California and the conflict between the wheat growers and a railway company. Benjamin Franklin Norris was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre." ; Maps; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 458 pages .
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