TY - BOOK AU - Norris,Frank TI - McTeague: A Story of San Francisco AV - PS PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Didactic fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Married people -- Fiction KW - Murderers -- Fiction KW - San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction KW - Avarice -- Fiction KW - Dentists -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McTeague; Release date is 2006-03-12; Produced by Pauline J. Iacono and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" by Frank Norris is a novel published in 1899. It follows a San Francisco dentist and his wife as their marriage disintegrates into violence and tragedy, driven by jealousy, greed, and obsession with money. When McTeague loses his dental practice through betrayal, the couple descends into poverty while his wife's miserly hoarding intensifies. Their story builds toward a devastating climax in the desolate wasteland of Death Valley, where past grievances and stolen gold lead to a final, haunting confrontation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/165 ER -