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The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. It describes the wheat industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company.
- Frank Norris
- 1901
A Netflix docuseries titled American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders is centered around the Casolaro case. His death became controversial because his notes suggested he was in Martinsburg to meet a source about a story he called "the Octopus".
Octopoida. Leach, 1817 [2] An octopus ( pl.: octopuses or octopodes [a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda ( / ɒkˈtɒpədə /, ok-TOP-ə-də [3] ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
The Octopus, novel by Frank Norris, published in 1901 and subtitled A Story of California. It was the first volume of The Epic of the Wheat, his unfinished trilogy about the production, distribution, and consumption of American wheat.
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The Octopus is the story of the conflict between wheat farmers in the San Joaquin Valley and the Pacific and Southwestern railroad. The "octopus" is the railroad, its tentacles spread out into every aspect of man's life, making itself even more powerful and of course always richer.
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Mar 11, 2018 · A classic novel of the American West, depicting the conflict between the railroad and the farmers in the San Joaquin Valley. Follow the adventures of Presley, a rancher's son, as he encounters the power and corruption of the octopus-like corporation.
