Frank Norris 
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.


 



Mc Teague is a riveting tale of murder and greed set in the squalid, urban world of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. More significantly, the novel is the premiere document of American literary naturalism and provides a vital glimpse into the turbulent American society of the period. Through his focus on the transformation of the slow-witted dentist Mc Teague into an animalistic, hunted murderer, Frank Norris creates a story in which desperate characters on the fringe of society are corrupted and destroyed by their uncontrollable desires.

Tentang Penulis

Frank Norris was born to wealthy parents in Chicago in 1870, but he moved with his family to the booming city of San Francisco in 1884, where he used the people and urban life of his adoptive hometown as the subject matter for his later fiction. In fact, the central murder in
Mc Teague is based on an actual vicious murder in a San Francisco kindergarten in 1893. Norris is also the author of
Vandover and the Brute, The Octopus, and
The Pit.