The complete online text of Vandover and the Brute 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...

Thorstein Veblen began writing The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1895, the year Frank Norris completed drafting his novice work Vandover and the Brute, published posthumously in 1914. Both volumes reflect upon an American economy characterized by industrialization, mass immigration, and selective...

There are poets who treat their own books lovingly when they read, hardly daring to open them for fear of doing some violence to the poems inside. And then there are the brutes, the spine-snappers, who don't seem to give a damn. If the...