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McTeague

by Frank Norris

First published
1899
Pages
282
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  1. Chapter 01

    19:40

  2. Chapter 02

    27:53

  3. Chapter 03

    23:09

  4. Chapter 04

    19:27

  5. Chapter 05

    37:38

  6. Chapter 06

    30:33

  7. Chapter 07

    30:06

  8. Chapter 08

    29:57

  9. Chapter 09

    41:15

  10. Chapter 10

    41:42

  11. Chapter 11

    38:24

  12. Chapter 12

    25:36

  13. Chapter 13

    19:22

  14. Chapter 14

    18:54

  15. Chapter 15

    27:48

  16. Chapter 16

    27:00

  17. Chapter 17

    12:58

  18. Chapter 18

    31:11

  19. Chapter 19

    40:29

  20. Chapter 20

    18:37

  21. Chapter 21

    61:32

  22. Chapter 22

    19:35

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Frank Norris published this grim San Francisco novel in 1899, a landmark of American literary naturalism. McTeague is a slow-witted, unlicensed dentist who marries Trina, a modest young woman who then wins five thousand dollars in a lottery. The money curdles everything it touches. Trina's growing miserliness and McTeague's brutish resentment poison their marriage, and when he loses his practice through a jealous friend's betrayal, the couple sinks into poverty, drink, and violence. Norris traces their ruin with unblinking force, treating greed and heredity as animal appetites that override reason, and driving the story toward a famous ending in the heat of Death Valley. The novel later inspired Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available.

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Frank Norris

Frank Norris (1870-1902) was an American novelist and a leading voice of literary naturalism. Influenced by Emile Zola, he wrote fiction that framed human behavior as the product of blunt biological and economic forces. He died at thirty-two, leaving his ambitious wheat trilogy unfinished.

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First published
1899
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
282
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Jeff Robinson