""There Will Be Blood" wins a 2008 Golden Globes Award. Read about it here."There Will Be Blood" wins two 2008 Academy Awards. Read about it here.Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of "Oil!," the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writing "The Jungle," his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story fe ..."
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The Brass Check A Study of American Journalism; Evidence and Reasons Behind the Media's Corruption 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 324 页, 发布时间 2019 通过 Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-0-359-74649-1, ISBN: 0-359-74649-7
"Turning his muckraking talents to journalism itself, Upton Sinclair exposes a variety of the news media's ingrained biases and its agenda-serving corruption. Upton Sinclair became famous for exposing filthy and inhumane conditions in the American meat packing industry at the turn of the 20th century. Following these revelations, new laws were made protecting factory workers and their conditions. Sinclair afterwards became a figure for c ..."
"A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. From the stench of the killing-beds to the horrors of the fertilizer-works, the appalling conditions in which Jurgis works are described i ..."
"... by silly little jingles that he could not get out of his mind, and gaudy pictures
that lurked for him around every street corner. ... Durham's Breakfast Bacon,
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"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 l ..."
"The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation. This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a wid ..."
I, Candidate for Governor And How I Got Licked 通过 UptonSinclair 272 页, 发布时间 1994 通过 Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91352-3, ISBN: 0-520-91352-3
"Then some Catholics in San Francisco wrote to him saying that I had said these
things, and asking if they were true. ... me one of the leaflets of the "United for
California League" of Los Angeles, entitled "Upton Sinclair on the Catholic
Church."
The Jungle (Paperback) 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 发布时间 2020 通过 Public Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-80060-654-8, ISBN: 1-80060-654-0
The Jungle (Paperback) 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 发布时间 2020 通过 Toronto Public Domain Publishing, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-80060-657-9, ISBN: 1-80060-657-5
The Jungle (Paperback) 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 发布时间 2020 通过 Camel Publishing House, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-80060-651-7, ISBN: 1-80060-651-6
The Jungle 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 发布时间 2019 通过 Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-69083-727-5, ISBN: 1-69083-727-6
The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions) 通过 UptonSinclair, C. Michael Hurst Hardcover, 360 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Sterling ISBN-13: 978-1-4351-3770-7, ISBN: 1-4351-3770-1
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The Jungle 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 416 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Simon & Brown ISBN-13: 978-1-61382-199-2, ISBN: 1-61382-199-9
"A searing novel of social realism, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle follows the fortunes of Jurgis Rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turn-of-the-century Chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. From the stench of the killing-beds to the horrors of the fertilizer-works, the appalling conditions in which Jurgis works are described i ..."
World's End II(Reprint) 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 388 页, 发布时间 2001 通过 Simon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931313-13-1, ISBN: 1-931313-13-X
The Millennium 通过 UptonSinclair Paperback, 发布时间 2000 通过 Quality Paperback Book Club ISBN-13: 978-0-9650114-4-0, ISBN: 0-9650114-4-5
"Upton Sinclair s novel "The Jungle," which inspired passage in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, stands as a classic of twentieth-century American literature and social protest. In this accessible and thorough edition by Christopher Phelps, a critical introduction addresses the wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender ..."
"This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone EditionTM includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Sinclair’s characterizations and language. Chicago, 1904: The lure of good wages and a chance to live The American Dream lure thousands of unsuspecting immigrants to the big city, where they find—instead of wealth and freedom—only stifling poverty, pervasive corruption, infectious disease, and early death. ..."