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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed.
- Frank Norris
- 1899
McTeague, novel by Frank Norris, published in 1899. The work was considered to be the first great portrait in American literature of an acquisitive society. In McTeague, Norris sought to describe the influence of heredity and environment on human life.
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5 de set. de 2023 · A naturalistic novel by Frank Norris about a dentist who tries to improve his life with a lottery win. The novel explores how nature and society control the characters' fate and lead them to death.
McTeague, a former miner, is a young dentist who lives in a small flat in San Francisco. One day his best friend Marcus Schouler brings his cousin Trina Sieppe—whom it is understood Marcus will marry one day—to McTeague’s office because she has broken a tooth.
11 de mar. de 2018 · McTeague remembered his mother, too, who, with the help of the Chinaman, cooked for forty miners. She was an overworked drudge, fiery and energetic for all that, filled with the one idea of having her son rise in life and enter a profession.
5 de set. de 2023 · Learn about the naturalistic themes, conflicts, characters, and tone of Frank Norris's novel McTeague. Explore how the story depicts the power of nature, the American Dream, and the fall of man.
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