A novel about the impact of railroads on American ranchers and the methods farmers took to strike back, based on a violent dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880.
Nineteenth-century American realist Frank Norris's brutal story of a San Francisco dentist and his greedy wife, two people doomed to lives of violence by their respective obsessions. Includes biographical notes, introduction, and afterward.
Nineteenth-century American realist Frank Norris's brutal story of a San Francisco dentist and his greedy wife, two people doomed to lives of violence by their respective obsessions.
