Frank Norris (1870-1902)

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Online Resources

•   This 1878  picture of a gilded tooth at the corner of Kearney and Market streets in San Francisco may be a source for the gilded tooth in McTeague.
• William Dean Howells's "Frank Norris"
• Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., on Norris's "Fantaisie Printaniere"
• Portrait of Jeannette Norris Black, Norris's widow.

The Frank Norris Collection at the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley)(Note: Both of these UC Berkeley addresses change frequently.) 
• Selected Bibliography: McTeague
• Bibliography: Recent Books and Articles on Frank Norris, 1989-
• Table of Contents (1986-2004) for Frank Norris Studies (Updated 11/29/04)
• "Frank Norris" by Don Graham (from the Western Literature

Association's Literary History of the American West) 

Brief biographical sketch of Norris at the American Society of Authors and Writers.
Extended biographical sketch at the Literary Encyclopedia site.

• The Charles G. Norris Page

Photo reproduced from A Novelist in the Making, ed. James D. Hart (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard U P, 1970).

Erich von Stroheim's Greed. 

• Description of the 1924 version as it presently exists.

Information on the reconstructed version, including a review, a history of the cuts made in 1924.

• Moran of the "Lady Letty" (1899) 
• Blix (1899)
• McTeague (1899) (ftp site from Project Gutenberg)
• McTeague (1899) (html version divided into chapters at the University of Virginia Text Center) Palm .pdb version
• McTeague site with student commentary at the University of Texas
• A Man's Woman (1900)
• The Octopus (1901)
• The Pit (1903) FTP at Wiretap.
• The Pit  HTML at the University of Virginia. Palm .pdb version
•  The Pit (1903). Text version (copy of Wiretap version) at the William Dean Howells Society site.
• Vandover and the Brute (1914) is at last available (thanks to Project Gutenberg)

Short Stories and Essays
 Page images at the Making of America Project