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The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. It describes the wheat industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company.
The Octopus, novel by Frank Norris, published in 1901 and subtitled A Story of California. It was the first volume of The Epic of the Wheat, his unfinished trilogy about the production, distribution, and consumption of American wheat.
The Octopus is the story of the conflict between wheat farmers in the San Joaquin Valley and the Pacific and Southwestern railroad. The "octopus" is the railroad, its tentacles spread out into every aspect of man's life, making itself even more powerful and of course always richer.
Overview. Frank Norris’s novel The Octopus: A Story of California was published in 1901, 21 years after the event it fictionalizes; the Mussel Slough Tragedy resulted from a dispute between settlers and the Southern Pacific Railroad that left seven people dead.
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