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020 _a9781523690510
040 _cMSA
082 _a813. 54
100 _aFRANK NORRIS
245 _aTHE OCTOPUS
_c12 EDITION
_bA STORY OF CALIFORNIA
260 _aUSA
_c1971
_bPocket Books,
521 _ahe 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
650 _aRomance Novel Romance Novel
942 _2ddc
_cBK