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빅토리 네가 반으로 자른 수박을 가져와 베 세머 씨의 접시 앞에 놓았을 때 식당의 벽난로 위에 매달린 뻐꾸기 시계에서 방금 9 번을 쳤습니다. 그런 다음 그녀는 축축하고 뒤틀린 일요일 아침 신문을 위해 정문으로 내려 가서 돌아와서 두 번째 아침 종을 울렸다. 빅토리 네가 반으로 자른 수박을 가져와 베 세머 씨의 접시 앞에 놓았을 때 식당의 벽난로 위에 매달린 뻐꾸기 시계에서 방금 9 번을 쳤습니다. 그런 다음 그녀는 축축하고 뒤틀린 일요일 아침 신문을 위해 정문으로 내려 가서 돌아와서 두 번째 아침 종을 울렸다. 빅토리 네가 반으로 자른 수박을 가져와 베 세머 씨의 접시 앞에 놓았을 때 식당의 벽난로 위에 매달린 뻐꾸기 시계에서 방금 9 번을 쳤습니다. 그런 다음 그녀는 축축하고 뒤틀린 일요일 아침 신문을 위해 정문으로 내려 가서 돌아와서 두 번째 아침 종을 울렸다.

The author's unfinished trilogy, begun in "The Octopus", continues in this novel about a trader intent on cornering the wheat market. Curtis's obsession with controlling the market and his domination of his emotionally dependent wife are the basis of this book.

Neal Bell's adaptation of Frank Norris's novel tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence, and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. "Frank Norris's novel McTeague is a panorama of the U S at the turn of the century: cowboys, gold mines, the immigrant experience, the advent of electricity and the movies. At the core is a gruesome cautionary tale, aptly retitled Greed by Erich Von Stroheim when he made a nine-hour film of it in 1923 … In adapting it anew … Neal Bell's script [tells] a story of downward mobility, about a miner turned dentist (sans diploma) who winds up defrocked and doomed in an abandoned mine." -William A Henry III, Time "Bell weaves a thick, dark tapestry of themes from MCTEAGUE's epic of incidents. Socially, the focus is on the helplessness of a rough simpleton in a rapidly urbanizing and professionalizing America - and on the determination of immigrants and bootstrap-tuggers to cling to the middle class rather than fall into the Victorian abyss of want. Psychologically, it's on the metamorphosis of McTeague's innocent ignorance into murderous rage - and Trina's sensible shift into masochistic self-denial. Morally, it's on the life-choking consequences of treating money as an end in itself rather than a means toward fulfilling human needs. Each of these levels resonates through the adaptation's writing." -Scott Rosenberg, San Francisco Examiner

Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West.

Presents a portrait of the downfall of a slow-witted dentist and his avaricious wife. This title presents insights into conflicting forces of heredity and social conditioning.