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...
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Epic of the Wheat, from its growth in California in The Octopus, to its distribution via Chicago in his posthumously published 1903 work The Pit, to its...
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Frank Norris (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
(1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903). Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made...
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glossary of chess The Octopus: A Story of California, a 1901 novel by Frank Norris The Octopus (comics), a character in The Spirit The Octopus, a title used...
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octopus (pl.: octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ɒkˈtɒpədə/, ok-TOP-ə-də). The order consists of some...
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Mussel Slough Tragedy (category History of Kings County, California)
The Octopus: A Story of California was inspired by this incident, as was W. C. Morrow's 1882 novel Blood-Money. May Merrill Miller's novel First the Blade...
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Terrance the octopus was a pet California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides, nickname: bimac), which became popular following the unusual hatchling of 50...
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Cephalopod attack (redirect from Octopus attack)
Malouines) off the coast of Angola, a huge 8-armed octopus climbed aboard. It was so severe that the ship capsized halfway. The rest of the story is unknown...
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Norris (California, 1894): author of The Octopus: A Story of California and McTeague Tom Peters (Cornell University, 1964): author of In Search of Excellence...
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(introd.). The Octopus : A Story of California. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Page & Co., 1924. Norris, Frank, and Charles Gilman Norris. The Third Circle...
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