Sinclair Upton

100%: A story of a patriot : a new novel by Upton Sinclair by Sinclair, Upton: 100%: A story of a patriot : a new novel by Upton Sinclair by Sinclair, Upton, ISBN: B0008CQUJA

Covers and text excellent with no tears or marks, and gilt lettering on covers and spine still very clean, By Upton Sinclair (1920) Pasadena, CA, small HB.

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Sinclair, Upton; Dickstein, Morris (Introduction by): The Jungle, New York Bantam Classic 1981
ISBN: 0553212451 Very Good

349 pp., biblio.; 18 cm. First published, 1906. Tight, clean copy. Browning. A muckraking classic, this book resulted in new laws regulating the meat industry. Another copy available. "In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about 'packingtown,' the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the 'muckraking' novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of 'wage-slavery,' the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change. / 'You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it,' wrote Upton Sinclair in 1962. He had spent his life doing just that through his writings and political activism. Born September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair began writing dime novels at the age of fifteen. By his death on November 25, 1968, he had completed more tan eighty books, twenty plays, and hundreds of articles dealing with virtually every social problem in the United States. He had helped establish the League for Industrial Democracy, gone to jail fighting for free speech a miner's right, started the California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, and, almost won the governorship of that state by running on the platform 'End Poverty in California.' But Upton Sinclair's fame rests on his muckraking novel The Jungle, a solidly research expose of Chicago's meatpacking industry. The public furor that followed it publication in 1906 led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act later that year. Sinclair continued his attack on industrial evils and called for further reforms in The Metropolis (1908, The Moneychangers (1910), King Coal (1917, and Oil! (1927). His eleven-volume opus, Lanny Budd (1940-1953), dramatized world history from 1913 to 1949. For the second novel in this series, Dragon's Teeth (1942), he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Throughout his life he remained a staunch Socialist and committed humanitarian, saying of his work 'My efforts are to find out what is righteousness in the world, to live it, and try to help others to live it.'" - Publisher. Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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SINCLAIR, Upton. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND OTHER MATERIALS. 1963
SINCLAIR, Upton. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND OTHER MATERIALS FROM THE UPTON SINCLAIR ARCHIVES. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, The Lilly Library, [1963]. 4to., printed wraps. The 56-page exhibition catalogue. Signed presentation from Sinclair on the title page: "To Mr. & Mrs. Jack Graves (& son), with best wishes, Upton Sinclair." Very Good (little browning covers)..

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(Sinclair) Subacius, Giedrius; Upton Sinclair: The Lithuanian Jungle. Upon the Centenary of The Jungle (1905 and 1906) by Upton Sinclair. Mit 19 Illustrationen und Index, Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi 2006, ISBN: 90-420-1879-8 [Bestell-Nr. 11784]
- In seiner Novelle "The Jungle" (1905 und 1906) benutzte Upton Sinclair eine auffallend große Anzahl von litauischen Worten, Phrasen und Nachnamen. Dieser Band ist der erste Versuch, Aspekte der litauischen Sprachwissenschaft und historische Daten aus "The Jungle" zu analysieren. - In his legendary novel "The Jungle" (1905 and 1906), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from "The Jungle".
[Ostgebiete, Polen, Litauen, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Literaturwissenschaft, Literatur, Germanistik]

XII/102 S., brosch., in englischer Sprache! Neuwertig! (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics. Vol. 5) 90-420-1879-8

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