TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norris,Frank
TI  - The Octopus : A Story of California
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - Farm life -- Fiction
KW  - Mussel Slough Tragedy, 1880 -- Fiction
KW  - Wheat farmers -- Fiction
KW  - Farmers -- Fiction
KW  - San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) -- Fiction
KW  - California -- Fiction
KW  - Railroad stories
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octopus:_A_Story_of_California; Release date is 2008-07-11; Produced by John Hamm, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Octopus: A Story of California" by Frank Norris is a novel published in 1901. It chronicles the brutal conflict between wheat farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley and a powerful railroad corporation seeking to seize their land. As ranchers band together to defend their livelihoods against monopolistic forces, loyalties fracture, violence erupts, and lives are destroyed. Through bribery, betrayal, and bloodshed, Norris depicts how impersonal economic powers crush individuals caught in their path, culminating in tragedy for both the innocent and the corrupt. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/268
ER  -