Norris, Frank

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, McTeague opens a quack dental parlor. His wife's former suitor is jealous and exposes his malpractice. After his wife's murder, McTeague escapes to the desert.

The Pacific and Southern Railroad engages in corrupt legislation to rob the farmers of their savings from the wheat crops. A grim harvest of death and disillusionment, and financial and moral ruin is yielded.

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.

Reprint of a 1902 novel which tells the story of Curtis Jadwin, a man whose increasing attention to earning money in the wheat market of Chicago almost destroys his marriage.

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, McTeague opens a quack dental parlor, but his wife's former suitor is jealous and exposes his malpractice.

McTeague, a quack dentist in late nineteenth-century San Francisco, remains friends with Marcus even after stealing Marcus's girlfriend, but things sour between them when Trina wins the lottery and refuses to share with anyone.