McTeague : a story of San Francisco
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McTeague : a story of San Francisco
（Penguin twentieth-century classics）
Penguin, 1994, c1982
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Bibliography: p. xli-xlv
"McTeague first published in the United States of America by Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899"--T.p. verso
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An early example of American realism, "McTeague" was considered truly shocking when first published at the turn of the century. This searing portrait of the downfall of a slow-witted dentist and his avaricious wife embodies Frank Norris' powerful insights into conflicting forces of heredity and social conditioning. It is a novel of compelling narrative force, resounding with a sense of life as epic. As Kevin Starr points out in his introduction, "McTeague" continues to be regarded as a central statement of evolutionary awareness in late nineteenth-century America and as representative of the best work of a school of writers that included Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser.
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