The Pit: A Story of Chicago
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Robert Henri, George Bellows and Childe Hassam. The Chicago Board of Trade: a man corners the wheat market, and the market — the Pit — takes its time about him. Norris planned a trilogy tracing wheat from the California ranches to the world's tables and died at thirty-two with two volumes done; this second one is about the men who never see the grain, and the trading floor is written like weather. Fifty-eight plates of city snow, crowded crossings and women in bright dresses by Childe Hassam and George Bellows catch the same Chicago clamor of streets and weather that drives the novel.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Robert Henri, George Bellows and Childe Hassam. The Chicago Board of Trade: a man corners the wheat market, and the market — the Pit — takes its time about him. Norris planned a trilogy tracing wheat from the California ranches to the world's t...
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Frank Norris was an American novelist who set out to write an epic trilogy about a single commodity — wheat — tracing it from California farms to the Chicago exchange to the hungry world beyond. He covered the Boer War and the Spanish-American War as a correspondent, championed Theodore Dreiser when publishers would not, and died of a burst appendix at thirty-two with the trilogy unfinished.
Frank Norris was an American novelist who set out to write an epic trilogy about a single commodity — wheat — tracing it from California farms to the Chicago exchange to the hungry world beyond. He covered the Boer War and the Spanish-American War as a correspondent, championed Theodore Dreiser w...
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