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McTeague eBook
99,674 words, approx. 332 pages
 The complete online text of McTeague by Frank Norris.




| Name: |
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. | | Birth Date: |
May 5, 1870 | | Death Date: |
October 25, 1902 | | Place of Birth: |
Chicago, Illinois, United States | | Place of Death: |
San Francisco, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist, critic |
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Biography of Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
1255 words, approx. 4.2 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 born in Chicago on Mar. 5, 1870, the son of a wealthy...
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Biography of Frank Norris
11856 words, approx. 39.5 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 indicates to the cultural historian: his works mirror chang...
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Biography of (Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)
11209 words, approx. 37.4 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 indicates to the cultural historian: his works mirror chang...



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McTeague Information
820 words, approx. 3 pages
 McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris. First published in 1899, it is set in San Francisco. The protagonist is a simple dentist named McTeague. The narrator never reveals McTeague's first name; he is referred to only as "Mac" by the other characters in...




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 The Boston Globe
A flawed debut of Bolcom's `McTeague'
11/02/1992: 1,111 words, approx. 4 pages McTEAGUE Opera by William Bolcom presented by the Lyric Opera of Chicago Saturday night. CHICAGO -- "McTeague" is an American classic twice over. People still read Frank Norris' naturalistic novel of bogus dentistry, greed, murder and agonizing expiration in Death Valley...
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 ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Mining and Rape in Frank Norris's McTeague.
06/01/2000: 7,133 words, approx. 24 pages Early in Frank Norris's novel McTeague, Maria Macapa brings the items she has pilfered from the apartments she cleans on San Francisco's Polk Street to Zerkow, the junk dealer, to sell. "[A]bsorbed at once in the affair," Zerkow becomes excited by the potential...
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11/24/2005: 371 words, approx. 1 pages It's been a busy time for 50 Cent — with the release of his memoir, From Pieces to Weight : Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens; Get Rich Or Die Tryin', a movie loosely based on his life; and the launch of a street...
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9/7/2007: 589 words, approx. 2 pages The Walt Disney Co. is sticking with the 18-year-old star of its wildly successful "High School Musical" franchise, despite her "lapse in judgment" in posing for racy photos that were leaked to the Internet.Vanessa Hudgens apologized Friday for the photos, which show her smiling as...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Walter Benn Michaels
13,610 words, approx. 45 pages
 In the following essay, Michaels draws on characters from McTeague and Vandover and the Brute to examine the portrayal of miserly behavior in Norris's naturalistic fiction.
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Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 81%
Mcteague Essay
477 words, approx. 2 pages
 In the prose of McTeague, the narrator holds a sarcastic tone towards McTeague, who is described as one whose desire for bargain in his office tools has prove to him to be cheap and idealistic. Through the author's use of diction, tone, and detail, the narrator reviews his mild disapproval of McTeague.


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