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The Pit: A Story of Chicago is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris. Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat. The first book, The Octopus, was published in 1901. Norris died unexpectedly in October 1902 from appendicitis leaving the third book, The Wolf: A Story of Empire, incomplete. Together the three novels were to follow the journey of a crop of wheat from its planting in California to its ultimate consumption as bread in Western Europe.… (meer)
256. The Pit A Story of Chicago, by Frank Norris (read 5 June 1946) I started reading this on June 1, 1946 and on that date said: "It's terrible so far." It got better, and I remember being blown away by the description of the trading on the floor. And in 1952 when I visited the Chicago grain exchange Norris' description came back to me and I saw his description was still accurate, all those years after he wrote it! ( )
Just started this and I already love the writing.. I can see this made into a beautiful moving because his writing is so descriptive. This book is about the stock market and applies just as much today as it did in 1903. I guess we don't ever learn....
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Dedicated to my bother Charles Gilman Norris in memory of certain lamentable tales of the Round (dining-room) table heroes, of the epic of the pewter platoons, and the romance-cycle of "Gaston le Fox," which we invented, maintained, and found marvellous at a time when we both were boys
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At eight o'clock in the inner vestibule of the Auditorium Theatre by the window of the box office, Laura Dearborn, her younger sister Page, and their aunt -- Aunt Wess' -- were still waiting for the rest of the theatre-party to appear.
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And this was the last impression of the part of her life that that day brought to a close; the tall gray office buildings, the murk of rain, the haze of light in the heavens, and raised against it, the pile of the Board of Trade building, black, monolithic, crouching on its foundations like a monstrous sphinx with blind eyes, silent, grave -- crouching there without a sound, without sign of life, under the night and the drifting veil of rain.
The Pit: A Story of Chicago is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris. Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat. The first book, The Octopus, was published in 1901. Norris died unexpectedly in October 1902 from appendicitis leaving the third book, The Wolf: A Story of Empire, incomplete. Together the three novels were to follow the journey of a crop of wheat from its planting in California to its ultimate consumption as bread in Western Europe.
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