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The Pit: A Story of Chicago (The Epic of the Wheat)

Name: The Pit: A Story of Chicago (The Epic of the Wheat)
Author: Frank Norris
ISBN: 9780140187588

Frank Norris

416 pages

Penguin Publishing Group

Aug 1994

Paperback

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This classic literary critique of turn-of-the-century capitalism in the United States reveals Norris's powerful story of an obsessed trader intent on cornering the wheat market and the consequences of his unchecked greed.

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Published 1994

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