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    The Responsibilities of the Novelist (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): and Other Literary Essays

    By Frank Norris

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    Published posthumously, this 1903 collection of Norris's literary criticism was assembled by his wife Jeanette.  In the title essay, Norris argues that serious writers have an obligation to present their readers with the truths of daily life, and not with idle fantasies of romance or escape. He also discusses important issues of western literature and the closing of the American frontier.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9781411449299
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    The Responsibilities of the Novelist (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): and Other Literary Essays
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    Frank Norris

    Frank Norris was an American author who wrote primarily in the naturalist genre, focusing on the impact of corruption and turn-of-the-century capitalism on common people. Best known for his novel McTeague and for the first two parts of his unfinished The Epic of the Wheat trilogy—The Octopus: A Story of California and The Pit, Norris wrote prolifically during his lifetime. Following his education at the Académie Julian in Paris, University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University, Norris worked as a news correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, and covered the Spanish-American War in Cuba for McClure’s Magazine. Norris died suddenly in 1902 of peritonitis, leaving The Wolf: A Story of Empire, the final part of his Wheat trilogy, incomplete.

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