McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris

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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco Summary

Set in San Francisco, California, in the early years of the twentieth century, McTeague is the story of a young dentist named McTeague and of his emotional decline. McTeague is introduced to a beautiful, innocent young woman named Trina. Immediately, something is stirred within him, something he has never felt before. McTeague is instantly taken by Trina's beauty and perhaps more so by her innocence. It is a sexual awakening for...

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McTeague

131,962 words, approx. 440 pages

CHAPTER 1 It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street.  He had a thick gray ... Read more

Frank Norris Biographies (6)

Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.

1,244 words, approx. 5 pages

The best work of Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (1870-1902), American novelist and critic, achieves a raw force that has won him an important place in the history of American fiction.Frank Norris was b... Read more

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)

11,121 words, approx. 38 pages

Frank Norris is a central figure in American literary history mainly because of three novels, McTeague (1899), The Octopus (1901), and The Pit (1903). But he is also important because of what he indic... Read more

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)

4,865 words, approx. 17 pages

Frank Norris has been viewed as a significant literary critic in one major way. His principal and quite specific image for most has been that of a spokesman for the literary movement which first devel... Read more

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)

7,266 words, approx. 25 pages

Frank Norris is known principally as an American novelist rather than a western one. He was perceived as a national artist by the majority of his contemporaries, and at the time of his early death in ... Read more

Frank Norris

11,809 words, approx. 40 pages

Biography EssayFrank Norris is a central figure in American literary history mainly because of three novels, McTeague (1899), The Octopus (1901), and The Pit (1903). But he is also important beca... Read more

Frank Norris

4,566 words, approx. 16 pages

Although he died less than five years after publishing his first novel, Frank Norris stands as one of the key figures of early twentieth-century American literature. In novels such as McTeague: A Stor... Read more

Essays & Analysis (5)

Critical Essay by Walter Benn Michaels

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Critical Essay by James E. Caron

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Critical Essay by William J. Hug

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Mcteague Essay

533 words, approx. 2 pages

Greed is defined as the intense and selfish desire for food wealth, or power. In the prose of McTeague, the narrator holds a sarcastic tone towards McTeague, who is described as one whose desire for ... Read more

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