num_pages: 368
description: "I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth," declared Frank Norris, shortly before his death at the age of thirty-two. Of his novels, none have shocked the reading public more than McTeague, and few works since have captured the seamy side of American urban life with such graphic immediacy as does this portrayal of human degradation in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Its protagonists, men and women alike, are shown as both products and victims of a debasing social order. Heredity and environment play the role of fate in a tale that moves toward its harrowing conclusion with the grim power and inevitablity of classic tragedy.
language: English
title: McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
titlecomplete: McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
characters: Trina, McTeague
genres: Classics, Fiction, Novels, Read For School, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, American, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 6275
places: San Francisco, California
publisher: Signet Classics