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The Octopus: A Story of California (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (v. 1) (1st Edition) by Frank Norris, Kevin (Introduction By) Starr Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-14-018770-7 / 0140187707 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018770-0 / 9780140187700 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 the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, "The Octopus"is a stunning novel of the waning days of the f |