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Most modern U.S. writers, from Frank Norris to Thomas Wolfe, are now mostly forgotten and little read.
Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011
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Most modern U.S. writers, from Frank Norris to Thomas Wolfe, are now mostly forgotten and little read.
Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011
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Jack London's works surely count as working class, as do the works of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Nelson Algren.
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In the end, Lovecraft, Dick, and Jackson do have greater "weight" in American letters than Powell, or Frank Norris not a slam on Norris, by the way, but the volume is stuffed with essays not widely quoted or cited anymore or Lafciado Hearn or many of the poets with LoA editions.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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The promising young critic and novelist Frank Norris had once been a fan - and friend - of William Dean Howells.
Turning back to painful but powerful chapters in country's race narrative Dennis Drabelle 2010
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Mr. CHESNUTT: It's from "McTeague," a Frank Norris book, and I wrote it down in my notebook where I write lines that I come across.
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The promising young critic and novelist Frank Norris had once been a fan - and friend - of William Dean Howells.
Turning back to painful but powerful chapters in country's race narrative Dennis Drabelle 2010
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Mr. CHESNUTT: It's from "McTeague," a Frank Norris book, and I wrote it down in my notebook, where I write lines that I come across.
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In the climactic scene in Frank Norris 'classic novel McTEAGUE, the two antagonists find themselves in the desert.
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The story of how the dollar wins out over the commonweal, and how the unethical mentality pursues profit no matter social cost, has been told and retold by the great visionary novelists, like Upton Sinclair in The Jungle, Frank Norris in The Octopus, Theodore Dreiser in The Financier, Edith Wharton in The Custom of the Country -- all written in the early 20th century and all tragedies.
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