Vandover and the Brute
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| Author | Frank Norris |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page & Company |
Publication date | 1914 |
| Publication place | United States |
Vandover and the Brute is a novel by Frank Norris, written in 1894–95[1][2] and first published in 1914.
The novel is primarily set in San Francisco in the 1890s. (Several of the characters bear surnames identical to street names in that city: Geary, Haight, Ellis.) It is a work of American naturalist fiction, depicting the rapid decline and dissolution of a once-promising young painter, as the eponymous brute within gains the upper hand.
