The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, Kevin Starr

The Octopus: A Story of California

The Epic of the Wheat #1

Frank Norris, Kevin Starr

688 pages first pub 1901 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, The Oct...

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