McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

Like his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS JR. (1870-1902) also highlighted the corruption and greed of corporate monopolies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... themes that continue to make his work riveting reading more than a century later. McTeague first published in 1899 is the tale of a poor not-too-bright San Francisco dentist his stingy wife and a winning lottery ticket that causes more problems than it solves. A forgotten classic of late-19th-century literature of social criticism-it served as the basis for Erich von Stroheims famously lost 1924 film Greed-this remains a highly entertaining read.