TY  - BOOK
AU  - FRANK NORRIS
TI  - THE OCTOPUS: A STORY OF CALIFORNIA
SN  - 9781523690510
U1  - 813. 54  
PY  - 1971///
CY  - USA
PB  - Pocket Books
KW  - Romance Novel Romance Novel
N1  - he Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was meant to be the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. It describes the wheat industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired to write the novel by the Central Pacific Railroad and the Mussel Slough Tragedy. In the novel he depicts the tensions between the railroad
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