
Two of Frank Norris's most powerful novels of American naturalism-The Octopus and The Pit-are presented together in this volume depicting the sweeping economic forces that shaped the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century. In The Octopus:...

Collected in one binding are The Octopus and its sequel The Pit. 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...