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The Octopus : A Story of California
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textWheat farmers and a railroad fight over who actually controls a harvest neither one grew with their own hands. Norris wanted to write the whole economic machinery of America as if it were a force of nature, indifferent to any single person inside it. It is bleaker than most of what shares its shelf, and deliberately so.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 13 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- On the Society shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #268. In the public domain in the United States.