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The Pit: A Story of Chicago is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris. Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat. The first book, The Octopus, was published in 1901.
- Frank Norris
- 1903
The first novel, "The Octopus," deals with the war between the wheat grower and the Railroad Trust; the second, "The Pit," is the fictitious narrative of a "deal" in the Chicago wheat pit; while the third, "The Wolf," will probably have for its pivotal episode the relieving of a famine in an Old World community.
Analysis. Summary. PDF Cite Share. The Pit was the second novel in Norris’s proposed trilogy called “The Epic of the Wheat.” In this “story of Chicago,” Norris moves from the production...
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- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902
- The pit : a story of Chicago
- English
This second novel of the planned but unfinished trilogy which Norris referred to as ‘the epic of the wheat’, turns from wheat production by the big ranchers around Guadalahara to the money men who speculate in wheat futures in the Chicago stock exchange - the pit of the title.
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1 de jan. de 2009 · The Pit, first published in 1903, is a fictional narrative of the dealing in the Chicago wheat pit, focusing on speculator Curtis Jadwin, who is so addicted to his own greed that it becomes his...
The Pit: A Story of Chicago is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris. Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be...
