California wheat ranchers wage a doomed war against the railroad monopoly that controls their land and prices. Norris's epic of the octopus of corporate power.
Books mentioned in The Octopus (8)
Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “When Presley reached Annixter's ranch house, he found young Annixter himself stretched in his hammock behind the mosquito-bar on the front porch, reading "David Copperfield," and gorging himself with dried prunes.”
Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier: “Can recite the whole of 'Snow Bound' without ever stopping.”
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “The "Marble Faun," Raphael's "Madonnas" and "Il Trovatore" were her beau ideals of literature and art.”
Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet: “a well-dressed young man in a plaid travelling cap, whom Annixter had observed before supper time reading Daudet's “Tartarin” in the French.”
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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “The first book, to be called The Octopus, would center on an actual incident in the San Joaquin Valley, where scores of local farmers, dispossessed by the Southern Pacific Railroad, had engaged in a violent altercation.”