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en-wikipedia-org-6150		The Octopus: A Story of California - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1620	173	69	The Octopus: A Story of California First edition 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. G. Frederick Keller's "The Curse of California", which appeared in The Wasp on August 19, 1882, is the likely origin of the depiction of the Southern Pacific Railroad monopoly as an octopus.[2] The Octopus depicts the conflict between wheat farmers in the San Joaquin Valley and the Pacific and Southwestern railroad (P&SW). "Presley's Pretense: Irony and Epic Convention in Frank Norris' The Octopus," American Literary Realism, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. The Octopus: A Story of California at Project Gutenberg (plain text)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6150.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6150.txt