Vandover and the Brute

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Vandover and the Brute

By Frank Norris

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About the book

Written circa 1894-95 but published posthumously in 1914, Frank Norris's Vandover and the Brute presents an unflinching portrait of unconventional sexuality, moral dissolution, and physical degeneration. In the setting of turn-of-the-century San Francisco depicted in Vandover, disaster encompasses far more than the vivid accounts of shipwreck or earthquake that appear in the novel. The slow wasting away of characters who contract syphilis, the suicide of a young girl, and the murder of a man cli...Show more

Literature: history and criticism

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9781554812394

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Broadview Press Ltd

Published year

2015

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Vandover and the Brute

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