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The Octopus

A Story of California

Frank Norris Kevin Starr

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English
Penguin Classics
01 August 1994
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880,The Octopusis a stunning novel of the waning days of the frontier West. To the tough-minded and self-reliant farmers, the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad represented everything they despised- consolidation, organization, conformity. But Norris idealizes no one in this epic depiction of the volatile situation, for the farmers themselves ruthlessly exploited the land, and in their hunger for larger holdings they resorted to the same tactics used by the railroad- subversion, coercion and outright violence. In his introduction, Kevin Starr discusses Norris's debt to Zola for the novel's extraordinary sweep, scale and abundance of characters and details.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 134mm,  Spine: 40mm
Weight:   533g
ISBN:   9780140187700
ISBN 10:   0140187707
Series:   The Epic of the Wheat
Pages:   692
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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