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With more than 30 million books sold

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is regarded as the first English novel

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco Delivery:Standard Order With more than 30 millionAn early example of American realism, "McTeague" was considered truly shocking when first published at the turn of the century. This searing portrait of the downfall of a slow witted dentist and his avaricious wife embodies Frank Norris' powerful insights into conflicting forces of heredity and social conditioning. It is a novel of compelling narrative force, resounding with a sense of life as epic. As Kevin Starr points out in his introduction,