The Octopus : A Story of California by Frank Norris
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"The Octopus: A Story of California" by Frank Norris is a novel published in 1901. It chronicles the brutal conflict between wheat farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley and a powerful railroad corporation seeking to seize their land. As ranchers band together to defend their livelihoods against monopolistic forces, loyalties fracture, violence erupts, and lives are destroyed. Through bribery, betrayal, and bloodshed, Norris depicts how impersonal economic powers crush individuals caught in
their path, culminating in tragedy for both the innocent and the corrupt. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Octopus : A Story of California |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octopus:_A_Story_of_California |
| Credits | Produced by John Hamm, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Didactic fiction |
| Subject | Farm life -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mussel Slough Tragedy, 1880 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Wheat farmers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Farmers -- Fiction |
| Subject | San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | California -- Fiction |
| Subject | Railroad stories |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 268 |
| Release Date | Jul 11, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 28, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1632 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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