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Vandover and the Brute

by Frank Norris

First published
1914
Pages
261
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  1. Chapter 1

    26:03

  2. Chapter 2

    20:39

  3. Chapter 3

    16:58

  4. Chapter 4

    33:57

  5. Chapter 5

    26:13

  6. Chapter 6

    12:38

  7. Chapter 7. Part 1

    26:22

  8. Chapter 7. Part 2

    18:20

  9. Chapter 8

    21:14

  10. Chapter 9 Part 1

    12:30

  11. Chapter 9 Part 2

    35:05

  12. Chapter 10

    17:59

  13. Chapter 11

    31:11

  14. Chapter 12

    16:19

  15. Chapter 13. Part 1

    27:07

  16. Chapter 13. part 2

    20:16

  17. Chapter 14

    34:34

  18. Chapter 15. Part 1

    33:45

  19. Chapter 15. Part 2

    33:58

  20. Chapter 16. Part 1

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  21. Chapter 16. Part 2

    36:47

  22. Chapter 17

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  23. Chapter 18. Part 1

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  24. Chapter 18. Part 2

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Frank Norris wrote this stark naturalist novel while still in his twenties, though it stayed unpublished until after his death. Vandover is a well-off young man in San Francisco with a talent for painting and no defense against his own appetites. Drink, gambling, and idle pleasure wear him down, and a woman he has wronged kills herself, setting off a slow ruin. As his fortune and his will collapse, he sinks under a strange nervous disease that leaves him crawling and howling like an animal, the brute of the title finally loose. Norris studied moral decay with a cold, clinical eye learned partly from Zola. The result is a bleak account of degeneration and wasted promise. This free PDF and EPUB edition restores an early classic of American realism.

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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
1914
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
261
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Adam Whybray, KHand, Lynne T and others