McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

This searing portrait of the downfall of a slow-witted dentist and his avaricious wife embodies Frank Norris’s powerful insights into conflicting forces of heredity and social conditioning. It is a novel of compelling narrative force, resounding with a sense of life as epic.As Kevin Starr points out in his Introduction, McTeague continues to be regarded as a central statement of evolutionary awareness in late nineteenth-century America and as representative of the best work of a school of writers that included Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser.