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McTeague

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's…

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Author
Frank Norris
Genre
Naturalism
Publication date
1899
Publisher
Doubleday & McClure
Language
English
Publication place
United States

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McTeague

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McTeague

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related to Adaptations · 48
McTeague → Abo, American, Arnold Weinstein, Babaloo Mandel, Bob Balaban, Carol Kane, Christian Ford, Colleen Camp, Corporation, Ed Asner, Ed Begley Jr, Erich, Fania Marinoff, Fox, Greed, Greedy, Hector Elizondo, Holbrook Blinn, In, It
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McTeague → Ark, His, In, Mac, Marcus, Marcus Schouler, Marcus's, McTeague's, More, Mrs, Noah's, Polk Street, San Francisco, Secretly, She, Shortly, Sieppe, The, Though, Trina
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McTeague → Emile Zola, English Department, Frank Norris, Harvard University, He, In, McTeague's, Mrs Sarah Collins, Norris, Operative Dentistry, San Francisco, Text-book, Thomas Fillebrown's, Trina
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McTeague → December, Frank NORRIS, Full Audio Book, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Jeff Robinson, LibriVox, LibriVox Audiobooks, Project GutenbergMcTeague, Standard Ebooks, YouTube
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McTeague → Frank Norris
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McTeague → Naturalism
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McTeague → English
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McTeague → 1899
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McTeague → United States
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McTeague → Doubleday & McClure

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trina marcus greed norris frank mcteague's 000 money film san francisco novel becomes trina's first book also story name sieppe

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McTeagueAuthorFrank Norris1.00infobox
McTeagueGenreNaturalism1.00infobox
McTeagueLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
McTeaguePublication date18991.00infobox
McTeaguePublication placeUnited States1.00infobox
McTeaguePublisherDoubleday & McClure1.00infobox
McTeaguerelated to AdaptationsLife's Whirlpool0.60section
McTeaguerelated to AdaptationsHolbrook Blinn0.60section
McTeaguerelated to AdaptationsFania Marinoff0.60section
McTeaguerelated to AdaptationsIt0.60section
McTeaguerelated to AdaptationsGreed0.60section
McTeaguerelated to AdaptationsErich0.60section

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