McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris
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"McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" by Frank Norris is a novel published in 1899. It follows a San Francisco dentist and his wife as their marriage disintegrates into violence and tragedy, driven by jealousy, greed, and obsession with money. When McTeague loses his dental practice through betrayal, the couple descends into poverty while his wife's miserly hoarding intensifies. Their story builds toward a devastating climax in the desolate wasteland of Death
Valley, where past grievances and stolen gold lead to a final, haunting confrontation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | McTeague: A Story of San Francisco |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McTeague |
| Credits | Produced by Pauline J. Iacono and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Didactic fiction |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Married people -- Fiction |
| Subject | Murderers -- Fiction |
| Subject | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Avarice -- Fiction |
| Subject | Dentists -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 165 |
| Release Date | Mar 12, 2006 |
| Last Update | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2499 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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