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McTeague, by Frank Norris
I came to Frank Norris' 1899 novel, McTeague, in a very roundabout fashion. I was reading one of the late Kage Baker's Company novels, in which cyborgs rescue and preserve history and nature's treasures for the future. The cyborgs gather to watch the lost eight hour version of Eric von Stroheim's Greed. After a little investigation, I found that Greed was based on McTeague. Since the film is lost—and because I have no patience for eight hour films no matter how "classic"—I grabbed a copy of the novel from Project Gutenberg.
McTeague is the story of a group of people who have their lives ruined by their own unbridled greed...
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