The Pit

Frank Norris

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A driven speculator, drawn into the roaring wheat-pit of the Chicago Board of Trade, is consumed by a titanic obsession to corner the world's wheat, wrecking his marriage and his peace, until the blind force of the harvest breaks him. Norris's novel of the great gambling arena of grain.

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