The Pit: A Story of Chicago (Annotated) by Frank Norris

The Pit: A Story of Chicago (Annotated)

The Epic of the Wheat #2

Frank Norris

336 pages first pub 1903 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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The Pit as a fictitious narrative of a "deal" in the Chicago wheat pit, which is the nickname of the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, where commodities are traded like stocks and bonds. One man tries to corner the market on wheat to ma...

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