Der Plastikbezug über dem Cover ist natürlich auch so billig gewählt, dass er bereits an allen Kanten leicht abgeht. Dazu auf der "Buch"-Rückseite einfach nichts - kein Text, kein Bild, Garnichts. Was hat es mit diesen Taschenbüchern auf sich, in denen vorne "printed in the USA" steht, dann aber hinten auf der letzten Seite "printed in Poland for Amazon"? Na was nun? Ist dieser Druck überhaupt legal?īei der billigen Verarbeitung möchte man meinen, Nein!Įs sieht so aus, als hätte man hier einfach die Daten des E-Books genommen und auf Papier geklascht: kleiner Text in langen Zeilen auf einer Seite, die von der Größe fast schon an DINA4 rankommt. Meine 1-Stern Bewertung bezieht sich nicht auf den Inhalt des Buches, sondern auf die Qualität des physikalischen Buches. In summary a good read but not nearly as enthralling as The Wheat. I found also that a significant event which lays McTeague low also mis-placed in that I'm sure (give the circumstances, which I won't state as it could be a spoiler) he could have found someway to carry on his profession. The extremely dramatic cowboy/western style ending, though worth the read of the book for, is the finale of about the last 10th of the book and appears somewhat out of place and perhaps overly contrived. Trina's miserliness dominates and steers the McTeague downfall. The depiction of the late 1800s America is very appealing but the realistic thrust of the story is just too meandering overall. This is a very slow burn sinister story with the build-up of the relationship of McTeague and Trina taking far too long I found. The dynamic of both couples rotating around both a real or imagined fortune is clever - suffice is to say brutal murder is the outcome. The dynamic occurs when Trina wins a fortune and Marcus regrets his magnanimity and falls out with McTeague.Īn interesting angle with the construction of the story is another couple Maria (McTeague's housemaid) and Zerkow (a Jewish merchant) also get together but based on his belief that Maria has a hidden fortune in a gold dinner service. The basic storyline being that Marcus wants Trina but gives way to McTeague. This is the dark, nasty tale of McTeague, a slow witted dentist his girlfriend Trina and their mutual friend (Trina's cousin) Marcus. There was some controversy regarding the content at the time but to be honest compared to Zola the realistic incident (child wetting himself) most discussed in the press at the time is very mild in comparison. His writing style was inspired by Emile Zola (my favourite author). This is another early natural realism novel by American author Frank Norris in around 1899. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. It is also one of the first major works of literature to set in California, and it provided the story for Erich von Stroheim's classic of the silent screen, Greed. With its compelling portrayal of human nature at its most basic level, McTeague is a gripping and passionate tale of greed, degeneration and death. Norris is often considered to be the `American Zola', and this is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, it tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague, his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the nineteenth century.
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