NORRIS, FRANK - A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West

New York: A. Wessels Company, 1907. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Remington, Leyendecker, Hitchcock and Hooper. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright. There is some light rubbing to the front cover of the book. The spine of the book has some fading and the lettering on the spine is mostly rubbed off. The text pages are clean and bright. "Frank Norris's work often includes depictions of suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies. [17][18] In The Octopus: A California Story, the Pacific and Southwest Railroad is implicated in the suffering and deaths of a number of ranchers in Southern California. At the end of the novel, after a bloody shootout between farmers and railroad agents at one of the ranches (named Los Muertos) , readers are encouraged to take a "larger view" that sees that "through the welter of blood at the irrigating ditch ... The great harvest of Los Muertos rolled like a flood from the Sierras to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India". Though free-wheeling market capitalism causes the deaths of many of the characters in the novel, this "larger view always ... Discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly work together for good". " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .