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Frank Norris
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born
March 05, 1870
died
October 25, 1902
gender
male
place of birth
Chicago, Illinois, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Thomas Henry Huxley, Joseph LeConte
about this author
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist/progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical defense of it. Norris was particularly influenced by an optimistic strand of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte, whom Norris studied under while at the University of California, Berkeley...more
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McTeague by Frank Norris avg rating 3.60 — 641 ratings — published 1899 64 editions |
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The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris avg rating 3.62 — 209 ratings — published 1901 21 editions |
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The Pit: A Story Of Chicago by Frank Norris avg rating 3.83 — 42 ratings — published 1903 16 editions |
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Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris avg rating 3.62 — 26 ratings — published 1914 3 editions |
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Norris: Novels and Essays by Frank Norris avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 1986 2 editions |
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Blix by Frank Norris avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2003 4 editions |
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A Deal in Wheat: And Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1970 7 editions |
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Moran of the Lady Letty: [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition] by Frank Norris avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1971 9 editions |
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Blix by Frank Norris avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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"Wait till you see-at the same time that your family is dying for lack of bread-a hundred thousand acres of wheat-millions of bushels of food-grabbed and gobbled by the Railroad Trust, and then talk of moderation. That talk is just what the Trust wants to hear. It ain't frightened of that. There's one thing only it does listen to, one things it is frightened of-the people with dynamite in their hands,-six inches of plugged gaspipe. That talks."
— Frank Norris (The Octopus: A Story of California)
— Frank Norris (The Octopus: A Story of California)
"If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better people to public affairs. It is so in all our great centres. There are other great trusts, God knows, in the United States besides our own dear P. and S.W. Railroad. Every state has its own grievance. If it is not a railroad trust, it is a sugar trust, or an oil trust, or an industrial trust, that exploits the People, because the people allow it. The indifference of the People is the opportunity of the despot. It is as true as that the whole is greater than the part, and the maxim is so old that it is trite - it is laughable. It is neglected and disused for the sake of some new ingenious and complicated theory, some wonderful scheme of reorganization, the fact remains, nevertheless, simple, fundamental, everlasting. The People have but to say 'No' and not the strongest tyranny, political, religious, or financial, that was ever organized, could survive one week."
— Frank Norris (The Octopus: A Story of California)
— Frank Norris (The Octopus: A Story of California)
