Frank Norris

A Deal in Wheat Frank Norris

Complete and unabridged paperback edition.

A Deal in Wheat is a collection of short stories written by the American author Frank Norris. It was published posthumously in 1903 and composed primarily of recently published works. It is a five part story about wheat speculation at the Chicago Board of Trade. As wheat prices fall in the midst of an economic feud between two influential speculators, the story's protagonist, a wheat farmer from Kansas, loses his farm. The book ends with the farmer relocating to Chicago, where he is denied free bread due to rising wheat prices. Influenced by naturalism, which the author contrasted with the realism. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.