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    Vandover and the Brute (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Frank Norris

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    Set in San Francisco, Vandover is the story of a rich young man who desires to become a great artist but lacks the ambition to do so. Suicide, death, gambling, and a lost fortune swirl around the young man, reducing him to menial work in the very slums he once owned. Vandover is an early example of American literary naturalism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateApr 12, 2011
    ISBN9781411436831
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    Vandover and the Brute (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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    Frank Norris

    Frank Norris was an American author who wrote primarily in the naturalist genre, focusing on the impact of corruption and turn-of-the-century capitalism on common people. Best known for his novel McTeague and for the first two parts of his unfinished The Epic of the Wheat trilogy—The Octopus: A Story of California and The Pit, Norris wrote prolifically during his lifetime. Following his education at the Académie Julian in Paris, University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University, Norris worked as a news correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, and covered the Spanish-American War in Cuba for McClure’s Magazine. Norris died suddenly in 1902 of peritonitis, leaving The Wolf: A Story of Empire, the final part of his Wheat trilogy, incomplete.

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      This is the first Frank Norris novel I ever read. His stark, uncompromising style captured me forever. The naturalist style in American literature is foremost defined in my mind by his works.