The Octopus
Автор:
Frank NorrisЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-09-29Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
194
Description
At the end of the nineteenth-century, a group of wheat growers in California’s San Joaquin Valley fights back when the railroad monopoly attempts to take possession of their farms. United in the local Farmer’s League, they try to retain the land that they’ve been improving for years, while the railroad company threatens them with increased shipping rates and eviction from their homes. When political opposition, court cases, and bribery all fail, the conflict comes to an explosive conclusion.
Published in 1901, The Octopus is the first part of Frank Norris’s unfinished trilogy The Epic of the...
