Project Gutenberg 2005-01-17 Public domain in the USA. 99 Norris, Frank 1870 1902 Norris, Benjamin Franklin Vandover and the Brute 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.) Reading ease score: 77.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 610400 2025-07-06T10:51:41.833516 text/html 608068 2024-10-28T21:45:30 text/html 303157 2025-07-06T10:51:50.935962 application/epub+zip 311150 2025-07-06T10:51:45.078490 application/epub+zip 299425 2025-07-06T10:51:43.644453 application/epub+zip 566137 2025-07-06T10:51:55.554889 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 528715 2025-07-06T10:51:50.101472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 475831 2022-09-07T17:56:07.447037 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 586233 2023-09-07T04:39:01.621601 text/plain 566375 2024-10-28T21:45:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15589 2025-07-06T10:51:55.679886 application/rdf+xml 14755 2025-07-06T10:51:44.144481 image/jpeg 4142 2025-07-06T10:51:43.892476 image/jpeg 303647 2025-07-06T10:51:41.880484 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia