Vandover, the son of a prosperous San Francisco family, is charming, idle and talented at painting. He drinks, gambles and drifts, and when a scandal touches him he begins a slow descent in which the ‘brute’ within him takes over, until he suffers a strange delusion that he is turning into a wolf.
Norris’s naturalist novel of degeneration, written in the 1890s and published only after his death, in 1914. Download the free EPUB.