New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. First edition, February issue. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover. (8), 421. A good copy overall, the front hinge is shaken, lower half of a blank at the end of the book is excised, some general mellowing and wear to the cloth. FIRST EDITION OF "THE EPIC OF THE WHEAT." This, a fictitious narrative of a deal in the Chicago wheat pit, is the second volume in Norris' projected trilogy, ‘The Epic of the Wheat’. Tracing wheat from growth to consumption, this second volume looks at the Chicago Wheat Exchange. The third volume, THE WOLF, had not been written when Norris succumbed to illness. About his writing, the best type of novel, according to Norris, "proves something, draws conclusions from a whole congeries of forces, social tendencies, race impulses, devotes itself not to a study of men but of man.

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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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Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 29184
Title: THE PIT A Story of Chicago
Author: Norris Frank
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1903

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