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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

Reading discussion on "McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" by Frank Norris. Discussion led by: Greg Lewis, PhD, WSU.

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Thursday, 7 Mar 2024, 7 p.m. – McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris. Scholar: Greg Lewis, PhD, WSU. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco By Norris, Frank Editor Loving, Jerome 2009-09 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780199554898 CHECK CATALOG Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, this novel tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague and his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the "American Zola," and this passionate tale of greed, degeneration, and death is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth …More

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