Chapter One
It was always a matter of wonder to Vandover that
he was able to recall so little of his past life.
With the exception of the most recent events he could
remember nothing connectedly...
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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 b...
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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 indic...
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Frank Norris has been viewed as a significant literary critic in one major way. His principal and quite specific image for most has been that of a spokesman for the literary movement which first devel...
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Frank Norris is known principally as an American novelist rather than a western one. He was perceived as a national artist by the majority of his contemporaries, and at the time of his early death in ...
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Biography EssayFrank 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 beca...
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Although he died less than five years after publishing his first novel, Frank Norris stands as one of the key figures of early twentieth-century American literature. In novels such as McTeague: A Stor...
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Vandover and the Brute
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)
Frank Norris