Project Gutenberg 2005-01-17 Public domain in the USA. 100 Norris, Frank 1870 1902 Norris, Benjamin Franklin Vandover and the Brute Reading ease score: 77.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Melissa Er-Raqabi, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Vandover and the Brute" by Frank Norris is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the character of Vandover, a young man filled with memories of his troubled past and struggles with his identity and desires as he navigates his adolescence and the expectations placed upon him by society. The opening of the book introduces Vandover and his fragmented memories surrounding pivotal moments in his life, notably the death of his mother during a family journey and his subsequent transition into a tumultuous adolescence. Norris paints a vivid picture of Vandover's environment in San Francisco and highlights his father's challenges in a declining business following a previous period of prosperity. As Vandover matures, he grapples with conflicting influences—his artistic ambitions, societal expectations, and the awakening of a more primal nature, foreshadowing the internal conflict that shapes his character throughout the novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 610345 610210 2024-10-06T14:15:31.563327 2023-09-07T04:39:02.472622 text/html text/html 629588 2020-12-19T05:41:29 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 229784 2020-12-19T05:41:29 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 303107 2024-10-06T14:15:41.552262 application/epub+zip 311192 2024-10-06T14:15:35.095299 application/epub+zip 299467 2024-10-06T14:15:33.674352 application/epub+zip 566195 2024-10-06T14:15:46.751765 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 528837 2024-10-06T14:15:40.602289 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 475831 2022-09-07T17:56:07.447037 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 586331 586233 2024-10-06T14:15:30.387388 2023-09-07T04:39:01.621601 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 586011 2020-12-19T05:41:29 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 220736 2020-12-19T05:41:29 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 586021 2020-12-19T05:41:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 220677 2020-12-19T05:41:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20925 2024-10-06T14:15:46.881733 application/rdf+xml 14755 2024-10-06T14:15:34.232500 image/jpeg 4142 2024-10-06T14:15:33.952301 image/jpeg 303615 2024-10-06T14:15:31.617311 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia