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Frank Norris

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Born: March 04 1870

Died: 2424 10 19021902

Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague , The Octopus: A California Story , and The Pit . Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist/progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical defense of it. Norris was particularly influenced by an optimistic strand of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte, whom Norris studied under while at the University of California, Berkeley. Through many of his novels, notably McTeague, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," his animalistic tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the French naturalist Emile Zola.

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Frank Norris

Frank Norris

Books from Frank Norris

The Octopus: A Story of California

The Pit: A Story Of Chicago

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

Vandover and the Brute

San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics

A Deal in Wheat

Sanguinarius. 13 historias de vampiros

Novels and Essays: Vandover and the Brute / McTeague / The Octopus / Essays

Blix

A Man's Woman

Moran Of The Lady Letty

The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris

El Camino al oeste

A Mans Woman

The Pit: A Story of Chicago (Annotated)

Greed [VHS]

The Joyous Miracle

McTeague

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

El camino al Oeste (Libros de encargo)