The Pit

A Story of Chicago

(1903)

Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, this is Norris' second book in his trilogy "The Epic of the Wheat". The first book, The Octopus, was published in 1901. Norris died unexpectedly in October 1902 from appendicitis leaving the third book, The Wolf: A Story of Empire, incomplete. Together the three novels were to follow the journey of a crop of wheat from its planting in California to its ultimate consumption as bread in Western Europe.

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