Upton Sinclair eBooks

eBooks di Upton Sinclair editi da Endymion Press di Formato Mobipocket

Upton Sinclair (Baltimora 1878 - Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1968), scrittore americano, si è accostato al realismo dei primi del Novecento che ha prodotto in America romanzi a tema sociale, tra i quali spicca The Jungle (1906). Tra le sue numerose pubblicazioni ricordiamo: Manassas. A Novel of the War (1904), considerato uno dei migliori romanzi storici della letteratura americana, Oil! (1827), che ha ispirato il film Il petroliere (2007) di Paul Thomas Anderson, e Boston (1928), incentrato sulla vicenda dell’arresto, del processo e dell’esecuzione di Sacco e Vanzetti.
EBOOK   9781531296643

King Midas. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Upton Sinclair   -  Endymion Press, 2016  - 

Arthur was an orphan raised by Reverend Davis -- and the moment he came of age, he began working at repaying that man for his kindness. Arthur is in love, and has always been in love with, Helen, the Reverend's daughter. When Helen is sent away to travel the world, Arthur is devastated. But instead of moping about, he does his best to be the best that he can. He wins scholarships attends college. Then Helen returns, but she is not the same woman that left Arthur three years ago. She's older and more sophisticated. Arthur remains nothing more than a talented poet, something to be appreciated, but not loved. Can Arthur win Helen's heart as a mere poet? * Upton Sinclair was an American novelist -- and a notorious muckraker. He is known for writing "The Jungle" a book about the horrible conditions of the meatpacking industry in Chicago. The reforms that the book suggested did not go into immediate effect, but the national outcry resulted in President Theodore Roosevelt's creation of the Pure food and Drug Law. "/King Midas" was originally published as "Springtime and Harvest" and is the first of Upton Sinclair's published works

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EBOOK   9781531295066

Damaged Goods. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Upton Sinclair   -  Endymion Press, 2016  - 

Novelized version of the Great Play, Les Avaries, with the approval of the author Eugene Brieux. American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. Among Sinclair's most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. In Damaged Goods the horrors of venereal disease are explored in this social drama. The story centers on a young couple whose future is endangered when the husband makes a terrible mistake. 

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EBOOK   9781531294366

A Captain of Industry. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Upton Sinclair   -  Endymion Press, 2018  - 

"A Captain of Industry: Being the Story of a Civilized Man" tells the story of a wealthy man's son who falls in love with a poor girl. When the boy's father pays the girl off and sends her away, the boy is driven to become the Captain of Industry of the title ... but can wealth and power replace true happiness?

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