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McTeague

McTeague

McTeague

Frank Norris

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Editorial:
Bottom of the Hill Publishing
Año de edición:
2011
Materia
Género policíaco y de misterio
ISBN:
9781612032962
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McTeague by Frank Norris tells the story of a couple’s courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the result of jealousy and avarice.McTeague is a graphic depiction of urban American life centering around McTeague, a dentist practicing in San Francisco. At first content with his life and friendship with an ambitious man named Marcus, McTeague eventually courts and marries Trina, a parsimonious young woman who wins a large sum of money in a lottery. The greed of the majority of the characters in the novel creates a chain of events that lead to many painful, gruesome deaths. 3

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