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2 unusual facts about The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled


The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled

The book was later the basis for the 1983 film, Circle of Power.

The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is listed in the 1987 edition of Best Sellers, at the University of Scranton archives.


A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West

:A 1909 film directed by D.W. Griffith, A Corner in Wheat, was based on Norris’ “A Deal in Wheat,” along with his 1903 novel The Pit.

Chicago literature

Frank Norris's The Pit is a novel of greed and life on the early 20th century trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Circle of Power

Circle of Power is a 1983 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White, and based on the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled.

Fort Wadsworth

The comic book version of the elite United States military counterterrorism unit G.I. Joe was based in "The Pit," a secret underground base beneath the Motor Pool of the Army Chaplains' Assistants School in Fort Wadsworth.

Sam Snyders

Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is best known for his role as Tom Sawyer in the 1979 Canadian television series, Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, alongside Ian Tracey who played Huckleberry Finn, and for his role as Jamie Benjamin in the 1981 horror film The Pit.

The Epic of the Wheat

Following his 1899 success McTeague, Norris formulated his idea for a trilogy of novels on the topic of wheat, his Epic of the Wheat, from its growth in California in The Octopus, to its distribution via Chicago in his posthumously published 1903 work The Pit, to its consumption in a famished region of Europe or Asia in The Wolf.


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