The Pit: A Story of Chicago

by Frank Norris, Joseph A. McElrath (Introduction)

Overview

This classic literary critique of turn-of-the-century capitalism in the United States reveals Norris's powerful story of an obsessed trader intent on cornering the wheat market and the consequences of his unchecked greed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140187588
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/1994
Series:	The Epic of the Wheat , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Frank Norris



Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre.[1][2][3][4][5] His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903).