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The Pit
A Story of Chicago
by Frank Norris
Hardcover
421 pages
BSKU: 3NOP
ISBN-13: 978-0-8376-0407-7
Bentley Library-Bound Standard Fiction Reprints are designed for long-term library circulation. They are printed on high-quality 55-lb. book paper. The bindings are sewn, not glued, and each book is covered with a sturdy water-resistant Pyroxylin library binding. This high-quality construction ensures that these books will last for many years.
A novel "dealing with the wheat market of Chicago. The hero is Curtis Jadwin, whose winning of Laura Dearborn and a subsequent growing prosperity mark him as a successful man. He is ruined in the Pit, but his misfortune wins back for him the love and devotion of his wife." -Benet, The Reader’s Encyclopedia
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