# McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

By Frank Norris.

"McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" by Frank Norris is a novel published in 1899. It follows a San Francisco dentist and his wife as their marriage disintegrates into violence and tragedy, driven by jealousy, greed, and obsession with money. When McTeague loses his dental practice through betrayal, the couple descends into poverty while his wife's miserly hoarding intensifies. Their story builds toward a devastating climax in the desolate wasteland of Death Valley, where past grievances and stolen gold lead to a final, haunting confrontation. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Didactic fiction; Psychological fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Murderers -- Fiction; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction; Avarice -- Fiction; Dentists -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [McTeague](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/1824) by Frank Norris (10 h 43 min, English)

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