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A Case For Lombroso
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... that so long as they kept apart they were safe-the moment they should come together they would break and fill and sink. Haec fabula docet and ...... his genuineness and his fine male strength and honesty and courage. Furthermore, he was well-looking, but that's a detail. Cresencia Hromada (as ...... of her family, proud of her beauty (which was a marvel), proud of her exclusiveness,...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 24
A Deal In Wheat
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references: (p. 179-180).]
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A Deal In Wheat And Other Stories
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references: (p. 179-180).]
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A Lost Story
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [Atla (1886) is a fantasy novel by Ann Eliza Smith. It is a tale about the discovery of the Atlantis civilization by the Phoenicians.]
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A Man Woman
[english | 1904]Frank Norris
Summary: [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have ...]
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Blix
[english | 1899]Frank Norris
Summary: [1. The octopus. c1901.--2. The pit. A deal in wheat. 1903.--3. McTeague. A mans woman. c1899.--4. Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship. c1899.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 122
Comida An Experience In Famine
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [Comida An Experience In Famine by Frank Norris. Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr. March 5 1870 - October 25 1902 was an American novelist during the Progressive Era writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague 1899 The Octopus A California Story 1901 and The Pit 1903 . Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system his work nevertheless evinces ...]
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Fantaisie Printaniere
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [Lewis O. Introduction.--Bandy Callaghans girl.--His sister.--End of the beginning.--Judys service of gold plate.--Fantaisie printaniere.--Perverted tales.--The Santa Cruz Venetian carnival.--A California jubilee.--Hunting human game.--The bombardment.--At home from eight to twelve.--Cosmopolitan San Francisco.--Reviews and interviews.--In the heat of battle.--The puppets and the puppy.--Through]
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Mcteague A Story Of San Francisco
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [Mcteague A Story Of San Francisco An Authoritative Text Backgrounds And Sources Criticism A Norton Critical Edition by Frank Norris. An early example of American realism McTeague was considered truly shocking when first published at the turn of the century. This searing portrait of the downfall of a slow-witted dentist and his avaricious wife embodies Frank Norris powerful insights into ...]
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Moran Of The Lady Letty
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [1. The octopus. c1901.--2. The pit. A deal in wheat. 1903.--3. McTeague. A mans woman. c1899.--4. Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship. c1899.]
Genres: [nautical | adventure] Downloads: 139
The Dual Personality Of Slick Dick Nickerson
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... office of the President. The President was an old man, bearded like a prophet, with a watery blue eye and a forehead wrinkled like an orang's. He ...... deposits. That's promised. Hallo! You're up in the Aleutians. I make out. 20 A.-what's that? Old government telegraph wire-line abandoned-finest ...... buyin' no dead horse, Cap'n, returned Hardenberg, but I'll say this: we pay no ...]
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The Octopus
[english | ]Frank Norris
Summary: [1. The octopus. c1901.--2. The pit. A deal in wheat. 1903.--3. McTeague. A mans woman. c1899.--4. Blix. Moran of the Lady Letty. Essays on authorship. c1899.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 124
The Passing Of Cock Eye Blacklock
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... Bunt about half an hour after supper, if your provender has shook down comfortable by now, we might as well jar loose and be moving along out yonder. ...... seen the end of gold and the end of the buffalo, the beginning of cattle, the beginning of wheat, and the spreading of the barbed-wire fence, that, in ...... the sun by day and the courses of the constellations by night are the ...]
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The Pit A Story Of Chicago
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... He had inflated the price of the wheat, he had backed a false, an artificial, and unwarrantable boom, and now he was being broken. Ah Crookes ...... without a murmur only to come back loyal as ever, silent, watchful, sympathetic, his love for her deeper, stronger than before, and-as always timely-bringing ...... child whatever are you going to do with all your money? They tell me ...]
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The Ship That Saw A Ghost
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... out a cylinder head, but being manageable was proceeding on her way under sail. That is what Lloyds would have answered. If you know ...... and behold she is on the black list, and her captain, owners, officers, agents and consignors, and even supercargoes, are asked to explain. ...... no sailor will walk her decks. The Glarus is suspect. She has seen a ghost. * * * * * It ...]
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The Surrender Of Santiago
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Illustration] THE SURRENDER OF SANTIAGO AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORIC SURRENDER OF SANTIAGO TO GENERAL ...... 'Tis a way we had at Caney, sir, 'Tis a way we had at Caney, sir, 'Tis a way we had at Caney, sir, To drive the Dons away, an adaptation ...... enough with the usual military formulas, and the first thirty words might have been part of any one of ...]
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Two Hearts That Beat As One
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... my ignorance and said: They fought? Mister Man, returned Bunt soberly, as one broaching a subject not to be trifled with, They sure ...... moment, but the first is woman. When I meets up with a feemale woman on my trail, I sheers off some prompt, Mr. Dixon I sheers off. An' Hardenberg, ...... Revolution-Thing cayoodlin' in the scenery, an' the Gover'ment is plum bothered. They ...]
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Vandover And The Brute
[english | ]Frank Norris
Excerpts: [... two cramped passageways, on either side of which the tiers of bunks, mere open racks filled with bedding, rose to the roof, those occupied by women ...... go on, and he began to wonder how human beings could endure such stress and yet live. But Vandover himself suffered too keenly to take much ...... Vandover turned over the supervision and management of his affairs and his ...]
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