The Octopus: A Story of California and the Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris

The Octopus: A Story of California and the Pit: A Story of Chicago

The Epic of the Wheat #1

Frank Norris

632 pages first pub 1901 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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The Octopus is a story of corporate greed, power, and abuse. A group of wheat farmers agree to work a railway company's land in exchange for assurances that after a ten year period they will be able to purchase the land at a reasonable price. When...

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