Upton Sinclair
1) The jungle
Author
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
2) Oil!
Author
Pub. Date
1927
Physical Desc
3 unnumbered pages1., 527 pages
Language
English
Description
First published in 1927, "Oil!" is an unflinching portrayal of greed and betrayal by Pulitzer Prize winning author Upton Sinclair. Famous for his groundbreaking work "The Jungle", which exposed the horribly unsafe conditions in the American meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his critical eye toward the immorality of the emerging oil-drilling business. Set in Southern California and inspired by the Teapot Dome Scandal, "Oil!" follows the fortunes...
3) World's end
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1940
Physical Desc
740 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A sophisticated American teenager comes of age during World War I in the first volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning series of historical novels from the author of The Jungle The son of an American arms dealer and his mistress, Lanning "Lanny" Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his mother's glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1926
Physical Desc
64 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "Judd is an old carpenter who has done odd jobs on our place for the past ten years. Just how old he is I don't know, but he's pretty old, his hands are gnarled and calloused and his finger nails chewed up and broken by hammer blows, there are knotted veins in his forehead and his hair is grey and thin. But he works like a beaver, and don't you ever hint that he should slow up-he will hoot at you, and say that he can lick any young feller...
5) Boston
Author
Pub. Date
1928
Physical Desc
374 pages 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A wealthy dowager confronts the brutality of the class system and fights for justice in this dramatic account of the Sacco and Vanzetti case With the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair became the literary conscience of America. Two decades later, he brought his singular artistry and steadfast commitment to the cause of social equality to bear on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists accused of armed...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1942
Physical Desc
viii, 631 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: Lanny Budd faces the unstoppable tide of Nazi terror in the third installment of Upton Sinclair's monumental saga of twentieth-century world history In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, Lanny Budd's financial acumen and his marriage into great wealth enable him to continue the lifestyle he has always enjoyed. But the devastation the collapse has wrought on ordinary citizens has only strengthened Lanny's socialist...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1946
Physical Desc
viii, 627 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presidential secret agent Lanny Budd is targeted by allies and enemies alike as the deadly tide of war rolls across Europe Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And President Franklin Roosevelt has been keeping an even closer eye on developments in the Third Reich. At the president's personal request, Lanny Budd gained the confidence of the Nazi high command and began transmitting valuable information...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1941
Physical Desc
x, 859 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the rise of Fascism in Europe to the stock market crash on Wall Street, the second installment of this Pulitzer Prize–winning series of historical novels captures the drama, intrigue, and excitement of the Roaring Twenties The First World War brought an abrupt end to Lanny Budd's idyllic youth. Now, in the wake of the Treaty of Versailles, he barely recognizes the beloved Europe of his boyhood. At the start of his career as an international...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Jungle is a 1906 book written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (18781968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper....
Author
Series
St. Lukes classics volume 3
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
xxxi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) The jungle
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English