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#TheOctopus #FrankNorris #AmericanNaturalism #CaliforniaWheat #RailroadMonopoly #EpicNovel #SocialProtest #NorrisClassic #AgrarianStruggle #TurnOfTheCentury

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Authors who supported this new American virility included #StephenCrane, #TheodoreDreiser, #ZaneGrey, #JackLondon, & #FrankNorris. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #masculinity

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The Octopus, #FrankNorris, 1901.
Part 1 of his unfinished “Epic of the Wheat” trilogy, it’s about wheat farmers and their fight with the railroad monopoly.
Blatantly political, a rant against the system, parallels with the #RobberBarons of his late 1800s setting and our tech #oligarchs . #Booksky

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🌾📖 Author of the Day: Frank Norris & The Octopus 🚂

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#FrankNorris #TheOctopus #Naturalism #AmericanLiterature #RailroadHistory #ClassicBooks

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another day working on the P&SW. everyone keeps asking me if they can buck the railroad. buddy, they won't even let me buck it. #FrankNorris

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