The Metropolis
Upton Sinclair is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Dragon's Teeth." His best known work is "The Jungle," a novel about the abhorrent practices of the meat packing industry at the time.
When Allan Montague arrives in New York, he is swept into the lifestyle of the fashionable. They know him through his father who was a General in the war. The longer
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January 1st 2007
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Ninth of public-domain classics I never read from Project Gutenberg read on my iPod using iBooks software.
Lots of over-the-top descriptions of the obscenely rich New York Titans of
Oil, Steel, and Insurance circa 1908, as seen through the eyes of a lawyer with a conscience who enters their world.
Lots of over-the-top descriptions of the obscenely rich New York Titans of
Oil, Steel, and Insurance circa 1908, as seen through the eyes of a lawyer with a conscience who enters their world.
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Upton Sinclair does tend to provide the same message within most of his novels and describe the cruelty and injustice pouring out of the richer societies. However, The Metropolis purely focuses on all of its characters and the struggle that Guy has facing the harsh realities of the people that swarm him. This socialistic writer hits another nerve and spreads more information about this land.
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Prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating socialist views and supporting anarchist causes, he achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century.
He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and c...more
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He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and c...more
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