The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris

The Epic of the Wheat #1

The Octopus: A Story of California

Frank Norris

372 pages paperback 1901

39 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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