McTeague

Frank Norris

⏱ 7 minAmerican classic

A slow, powerful San Francisco dentist marries his friend's sweetheart, who then wins a fortune, and gold slowly poisons them both into miserliness, ruin, and murder. Norris's brutal masterpiece of American naturalism, ending in the killing heat of Death Valley.

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