McTeague, a huge, slow-witted dentist with an unlicensed practice on Polk Street, marries Trina Sieppe, a patient introduced by his friend Marcus Schouler. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, jealousy, miserliness and drink take hold, and the couple’s life sinks from comfortable lodgings toward squalor and violence.
A towering work of American naturalism from 1899, later the source of Erich von Stroheim’s film Greed. Download the free EPUB.