The complete online text of A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris.

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 born in Chicago on Mar. 5, 1870, the son of a wealthy...

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 indicates to the cultural historian: his works mirror chang...

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 indicates to the cultural historian: his works mirror chang...

People who disapprove of the National Endowment for the Arts might shudder to learn of the Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s government work program that employed more than 12,000 theater professionals and created more than 900 original plays before political pressures abruptly ended it....

Byline: Robert C. Cowen In science, the old sometimes works as well as the new. Throw politics into the mix and the old starts to look a whole lot better. That's what appears to be happening with wheat breeders and their...