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Mc Teague

Frank Norris

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1899
Pages
Pages 440

Steam beer on a Sunday, a concertina played badly and with enormous pleasure, and an unlicensed dentist on Polk Street whose whole ambition in life is a giant gilded tooth to hang outside his window. Then Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, and Frank Norris begins the patient, appalling work of showing what money does to people who have never had any.

Below the fine fabric of all that was good in him ran the foul stream of hereditary evil, like a sewer.
Mc Teague, Frank Norris

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