The Octopus
by Frank Norris
800 pages~13 hrs
“A battle for the land where the price of progress is paid in blood.”
In the fertile San Joaquin Valley, independent wheat farmers find themselves caught in the suffocating grip of a powerful railroad monopoly determined to seize their land. This epic struggle of man against machine explores the raw clash between industrial greed and the untamed spirit of the American West.
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