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Humanities Book Group

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
2024-03-07 19:00:00 2024-03-07 20:00:00 America/Denver Humanities Book Group Reading discussion on "McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" by Frank Norris. Discussion led by: Greg Lewis, PhD, WSU. Brigham City Library - Rooms 1&2 (Combined)

Thursday, March 07
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-03-07 19:00:00 2024-03-07 20:00:00 America/Denver Humanities Book Group Reading discussion on "McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" by Frank Norris. Discussion led by: Greg Lewis, PhD, WSU. Brigham City Library - Rooms 1&2 (Combined)

Brigham City Library

Rooms 1&2 (Combined)

Reading discussion on "McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" by Frank Norris. Discussion led by: Greg Lewis, PhD, WSU.

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Thursday, 7 Mar 2024, 7 p.m. – McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris. Scholar: Greg Lewis, PhD, WSU.

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
By Norris, Frank
Editor Loving, Jerome
2009-09 - Oxford University Press, USA
9780199554898 CHECK CATALOG

Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, this novel tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague and his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the "American Zola," and this passionate tale of greed, degeneration, and death is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth …More

This program has received funding from Utah Humanities. Utah Humanities enriches our cultural, intellectual, and civic life by providing opportunities for all Utahns to explore life's most engaging questions and the wonders of the human experience.

AGE GROUP: | General | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | History | Book Group |

TAGS: | Humanities |

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