# The Octopus

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- Book: [The Octopus](https://www.bookquiver.com/frank-norris/the-octopus) ([The Octopus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/frank-norris/the-octopus.md))
- Authors: [Frank Norris](https://www.bookquiver.com/frank-norris), [Kevin Starr](https://www.bookquiver.com/kevin-starr)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-770-0
- Pages: 688
- Published: 1994-08-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and...