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McTeague is an enormously strong but dim-witted former miner now working as a dentist in San Francisco towards the end of the nineteenth century. He falls in love with Trina, one of his patients, and shortly after their engagement she wins a large sum in a lottery. All is well until McTeague is betrayed and they fall into a life of increasing poverty and degradation.
This novel is often presented as an example of American naturalism where the behavior and experience of characters are constrained by “nature”—both their own heredity nature, and the broader social environment.
McTeague was published in 1899 as the first of Norris’s major novels.
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Fiction, Married people, Dentists, Murderers, Greed, Zamorano 80, Avarice, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Married people, fiction, Criminals, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, McTeague (Norris, Frank), McTeague (Norris), American literaturePeople
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McTeague: a story of San Francisco
2009, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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McTeague: a story of San Francisco : authoritative text, contexts, criticism
1997, W.W. Norton
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It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna's saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer.
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