Frank Norris: 71 books

Clásicos de literatura del Oeste para observar la transformación del sueño americano. El sueño pastoral americano se ha transformado en un crudo sueño de poder y riqueza. ¿Cómo ha sucedido? El progreso y las tecnologías transformaron nuestra sociedad. Estos autores clásicos muestran el impacto...

Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today.

Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today.

Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today.

Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today.

From the author of The Octopus comes this compelling novel about an intrepid explorer who returns from an Arctic expedition to earn the love of an independent woman. A naturalist, Frank Norris was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which is reflected in this novel as he attempts to explore the power dynamic in a male-female relationship.

Frank Norris was a 19th century American writer known for producing stories about the Wild West, and despite his death at a young age, some of his Westerns are still popular today.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. McTeague is a riveting tale of murder and greed set in the squalid, urban world of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. More significantly, the novel is the premiere document of American literary naturalism and provides...

It used to be my duty, as sub editor of the old San Francisco Wave, to "put the paper to bed." We were printing a Seattle edition in those days of the Alaskan gold rush; and the last form had to be locked up on Tuesday night, that we might reach the news stands by Friday. Working short-handed,...

A Man's Woman is an adventure novel by Frank Norris written in the year 1900. It is a story that primarily follows two characters, Bennett and Lloyd, and the unlikely love that blossoms between them. It is one of three romantic novels by this author who typically wrote about more serious topics. The...

A Man's Woman is an adventure novel by Frank Norris written in the year 1900. It is a story that primarily follows two characters, Bennett and Lloyd, and the unlikely love that blossoms between them. It is one of three romantic novels by this author who typically wrote about more serious topics. The...

Benjamin Franklin Norris was an American writer and journalist in a period of “Progressive Era”. He was the first author who brought French naturalism in American literature. Norris was not a supporter of socialism as a political system, but his works were in a socialist orientation and inspired...

Benjamin Franklin Norris was an American writer and journalist in a period of “Progressive Era”. He was the first author who brought French naturalism in American literature. Norris was not a supporter of socialism as a political system, but his works were in a socialist orientation and inspired...

Published posthumously, this 1903 collection of Norris's literary criticism was assembled by his wife Jeanette.  In the title essay, Norris argues that serious writers have an obligation to present their readers with the truths of daily life, and not with idle fantasies of romance or escape. He also discusses important issues of western literature and the closing of the American frontier.