King Coal de Upton Sinclair

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2008

Upton Sinclair is one of the not too many writers who have consecrated their lives to the agitation for social justice, and who have also enrolled their art in the service of a set purpose. A great and non-temporizing enthusiast, he never flinched from making sacrifices. Now and then he attained great material successes as a writer, but invariably he invested and lost his earnings in enterprises by which he had hoped to ward off injustice and to further human happiness. Though disappointed time after time, he never lost faith nor courage to start again.

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Paperback (9)

55^.94 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

55^.94 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

87^.52 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

116^.02 lei 3-5 săpt.

Bottom of the Hill Publishing – apr 2014

121^.48 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

129^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.

Hastings College Press – iun 2015

107^.63 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 31 aug 2006

136^.25 lei 38-44 zile

NuVision Publications – 24 apr 2008

157^.55 lei 38-44 zile

BOOK JUNGLE – 8 iun 2009

177^.90 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (1878 - 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence". He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature -- being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.