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The Pit: A Story of Chicago Hardcover - 1971

by Frank Norris


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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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With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The women were, almost without exception, in light-coloured gowns, white, pale blue, Nile green, and pink, while over these costumes were thrown opera cloaks and capes of astonishing complexity and elaborateness. Nearly all were bare-headed, and nearly all wore aigrettes; a score of these, a hundred of them, nodded and vibrated with an incessant agitation over the heads of the crowd and flashed like mica flakes as the wearers moved. Everywhere the eye was arrested by the luxury of stuffs, the brilliance and delicacy of fabrics, laces as white and soft as froth, crisp, shining silks, suave satins, heavy gleaming velvets, and brocades and plushes, nearly all of them white-violently so-dazzling and splendid under the blaze of the electrics. The gentlemen, in long, black overcoats, and satin mufflers, and opera hats; their hands under the elbows of their women-folk, urged or guided them forward, distressed, preoccupied, adjuring their parties to keep together; in their white-gloved fingers they held their tickets ready. For all the icy blasts that burst occasionally through the storm doors, the vestibule was uncomfortably warm, and into this steam-heated atmosphere a multitude of heavy odours exhaled-the scent of crushed flowers, of perfume, of sachet, and even-occasionally-the strong smell of damp seal-skin.

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  • Title The Pit: A Story of Chicago
  • Author Frank Norris
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Pages 421
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bentley Publishers, Cambridge, MA
  • Date June 1971
  • ISBN 9780837604077 / 0837604079
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.94 x 1.36 in (21.79 x 15.09 x 3.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 70184738
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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