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McTEAGUE : Modern Library
by Frank Norris; (Henry S. Pancoast, Introduction)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY: Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1890. First Edition . Hard Cover/Leatherette. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. Text/Tidy, light marginalia to Introduction & pgs 1 - 15 & pg 442, else As New. Gilt embossed, wine leather boards/NF; sound w/rubs to spine edge. DJ/None. Upper text block dyed green. PO name (Herbert Feurstein ?) to fEP. Book shop sticker (NY) to rear cover verso. Novel by Frank Norris Benjamin (1870 - 1902), set in San Francisco of the 1900s. Story of a couple's courtship, marriage, and eventual descent into poverty & violence fanned by jealousy & greed, which was adapted to films McTeague (1916), Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924), and, opera (1992) by William Bolcom (1992). Protagonist McTeauge, was a dentist from poverty-stricken miner's background. He will establish himself in San Francisco, but remains encumbered by his antecedent limited intellectual & social skills. Wife Trina wins a $5,000.00 lottery and chooses to separately control the money in conjunction with her an uncle --- the father of cousin Marcus who, once willingly gave up Trina to McTeague, now feels cheated of his rights to have married Trina himself. Vissitudes & social intrigues not alien to human life of any era let alone 1900s America. Superb literary account of meeting of human beings of differing social backgrounds & values in a moment when social institutions are also in flux & un-uniform.
Synopsis
McTeague is an 1899 novel by Frank Norris. The book describes the life of a turn-of-the-century dentist in San Francisco, named McTeague. The narrator never reveals McTeague's first name; he is referred to only as "Mac" by the other characters in the novel. The book was the basis for Erich von Stroheim's film, Greed.
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- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020166
- Title
- McTEAGUE : Modern Library
- Author
- Frank Norris; (Henry S. Pancoast, Introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover/Leatherette
- Book Condition
- Used - COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1890
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Novel/Fiction/Literature/1900s America/San Francisco
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