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  • The Goose-Step
    Upton Sinclair
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  • The Moneychangers
    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) wrote over 90 books in several genres. He was considered to be a leading social advocate. Because of his novel The Jungle, which dealt with conditions in the meat packing industry, The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed. In the Moneychangers , Lucy Dupree arrives from New Orleans and expects her old friend Allan Mont...
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    28,63 €

  • They Call Me Carpenter
    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) wrote over 90 books in several genres. He was considered to be a leading social advocate. Because of his novel The Jungle, which dealt with conditions in the meat packing industry, The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed. Sinclair’s views on Christianity are clearly shown in They Call Me Carpenter. Written in 1922 t...
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    22,87 €

  • Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox
    Upton Sinclair
    This antiquarian volume contains Upton Sinclair’s uniquely insightful and veritably thrilling biography of one of the most important and influential figures in motion picture history - the founder Fox Film Corporation, William Fox. Written at a time when there was considerable controversy and turmoil between the financiers and organisers in the film industry, this sensational a...
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    52,64 €

  • The Metropolis
    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair (1878 – 1968) wrote over 90 books in several genres. He was considered to be a leading social advocate. Because of his novel The Jungle, which dealt with conditions in the meat packing industry, The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed. In 1943 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Dragon’s Teeth. The Metropolis was published in 1908. Allan...
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    32,72 €

  • Sylvia’s Marriage
    Upton Sinclair
    Sylvia’s Marriage is a novel written by Sinclair Upton and originally published in 1914. The book tells the story of Sylvia Castleman, a young woman who is determined to marry for love rather than for money or social status. Sylvia’s father, a wealthy businessman, disapproves of her choice of husband and tries to force her to marry a wealthy but unlovable man. Sylvia defies her...
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    37,54 €

  • The Jungle
    Upton Sinclair
    This novel is the original and uncensored edition written approzimately in 1904. This cover was used in 1906 with the publication of the first commercial edition - less chapters and a less brutal description of both the working conditions and the production of miserable meat. As a muckraker, Upton Sinclair had no idea that this work of fiction would inlame the public and the...
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    50,71 €

  • Oil
    Upton Sinclair
    This novel originates from the 'Teapot Dome' oil scandal of President Warren Harding as oil barons bribe politicians. It is about greed and the oil boom of Southern California in the 1920's. It is wrapped up in evangelic crusades by shifty preachers and leftist labor activists. 'Oil' is a provoking novel as a man and his son plunge into the oil drilling business and all that ...
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    59,34 €

  • The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Upton Sinclair
    Every reader of this refreshing book will go with Sinclair 'romping down the vista of the ages, swatting every venerable head that shows itself -- beating the dust out of ancient delusions!' With his acid-dipped pen the famous muckraker leaves no religious edifice standing -- whether Protestant, Roman Catholic, Theosophist, Christian Scientist, or Astrologist! ...
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    15,11 €

  • Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox
    Upton Sinclair
    This antiquarian volume contains Upton Sinclair’s uniquely insightful and veritably thrilling biography of one of the most important and influential figures in motion picture history - the founder Fox Film Corporation, William Fox. Written at a time when there was considerable controversy and turmoil between the financiers and organisers in the film industry, this sensational a...
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    42,47 €

  • The Associated Press And Labor; Being Seven Chapters From The Brass Check
    Upton Sinclair
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,42 €

  • Plays Of Protest
    Upton Sinclair
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,14 €

  • Sylvia
    Upton Sinclair
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,33 €

  • Mental Radio
    Upton Sinclair
    This fascinating book documents Upton Sinclair’s famous test that he devised in an attempt to authenticate his second wife’s supposed psychic abilities, who, at the time, was suffering from depression and had a keen interest in the occult. The test consisted of her attempts to accurately duplicate two hundred and ninety different pictures that her brother drew in a separate roo...
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    37,44 €

  • Mental Radio
    Upton Sinclair
    This book by Upton Sinclair does not follow his usually genre of politics but is in a different area of interest to him - psychic researce. It is with experiments in telepathy that this book examines. These experiments with Sinclair and his wife were very successful and are some of the best ever reported. Followers of Upton Sinclairwill be delighted in reading his thrust in...
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    45,67 €

  • A Personal Jesus
    Upton Sinclair
    A 'Personal Jesus' takes the life of Jesus as Upton Sinclair imagines him to be. Sinclair breaks up this novel into 3 sections- youth, mission and spirit. Again, he delves into religon and leaves his usual path of politics - but are not religions - Christianity, Judism and Islam political? A good question throughout history and especially in our modern times. As Sinclair sa...
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    45,73 €

  • The Secret Life of Jesus
    Upton Sinclair
    This book openws your eyes to Jesus walking again from the lilies of Galilee to the thorn of Golgotha. Dr. Reinhold Niebur, famed theologian, has said of this novel: 'While unorthodox, it is thoroughly reverent. Some orthodox Christians might not agree with the viewpoint of Upton Sinclair who seeks to appreciate the historical, the human Jesus,but even the most devout could ...
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    44,56 €

  • The FLivver King
    Upton Sinclair
    This novel describes the working class day-to-day struggle for economic justice. The book was written in 1937 to aid the formation of the 'United Auto Workers' (UAW). It is a continuation of Sinclair's famous novel 'The Jungle'. Again,this novel depicts how alienated work not only brings degradation to workers, but is the motivation for resistance and finally revolt. Great b...
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    44,81 €

  • One Hundred Percent
    Upton Sinclair
    From the book - which will give you an insight to the total content of this political novel. 'Also he had a bit of genuine anxiety. He told the truth when he said to Guggy that he didn’t know what a ’Red’ was but since then he had been making inquires and now he knew. A RED was a fellow who sympathized with labor unions and strikes; who wanted to murder the rich and divide t...
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    49,92 €

  • The Moneychangers
    Upton Sinclair
    This novel by Upton Sinclair is an account of the Wall Street panic of 1907 and depicts the reality of 'fear and loathing' of the upper class of New York City. A newcomer arrives on the scene from the South. The beautiful and charming Lucy Dupree enters this whirling society of the rich and famous. She is naive and captures the admiration and attention of two of the richest...
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    44,51 €

  • The Millenium
    Upton Sinclair
    In 1924 Upton Sinclair wrote this novel. The Millenium takes place in the year 2000. As capitalism reaches its apex, a 100-story Pleasure Palace is built in the middle of Central Park - New York City. It is built for the pleasure of the ruling class - pigs that they are! As the Palace has its 'grand opening' an experiment with radiumite goes real bad and it explodes killing...
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    45,70 €

  • The Profits of Religion
    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair's main concern is social justice. He wanted, through his writings, to make the common people aware of the many hypocrisies of organized religion. He saw the aligment of religion with the forces of capitalism and exploitation of the poor and the working clases of America. He wrote this book in 1918 at the end of World War I and it is a fascinating look at the...
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    46,78 €

  • A Captain Of Industry
    Upton Sinclair
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,55 €

  • Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair, Science Fiction, Literary, Classics
    Upton Sinclair
    While most people credit The Jungle for exposing the horrible, unsanitary practices of America’s meat-packing industry at the turn of the 19th century, the story spends far more time on the slum conditions and employer abuses heaped upon the immigrants who worked in the slaughterhouses and packing houses at that time. Sinclair wrote Jimmie Higgins in response to the First World...
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    15,01 €

  • Our Lady
    Upton Sinclair
    'Our Lady.' The book which Upton Sinclair says:'There is a saying that every author has one book which he especially loves, and 'Our Lady' is mine! This is a deeper and kindlier Sinclair than you ever have known. 'Our Lady' will haunt you just as it did its author. You will read 'Our Lady' not once but many times, and you will concur with Mr Sinclair and the critics of th...
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    43,49 €

  • They Call Me Carpenter
    Upton Sinclair
    As an American socialist, Upton Sinclair was fascinated by Christianity and wrote many fictional books that hummed around the main faith of Anericans. Titles like 'Our Lady', 'The Secret Life of Jesus' and 'A Personal Jesus'. 'They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of The Second Coming' is cleary set in the period when it was written in 1922 - the post WWI era. An excerpt from the s...
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    44,69 €

  • King Coal by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Upton Sinclair
    A fellow determined to find the truth for himself about conditions in the mines, runs away from home and adopts the alias 'Joe Smith.' After being turned away by one coal mine for fear of Hal being a union organizer, he gets a job in another coal mine operated by the General Fuel Company, or GFC. In the mines he befriends many of the workers and realizes their misery and exploi...
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    16,52 €

  • The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Upton Sinclair
    When an injustice befalls the poor, Allan is the first to fight for what is right. But as he continues his lawsuit, he begins to realize that the very people he’s fighting with are the very people who rule New York. He must be wily and careful if he is to survive this pursuit of justice.Upton Sinclair is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Dragon’s Teeth. His best known work i...
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    14,34 €

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Fiction, Classics
    Upton Sinclair
    The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it, 'the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.'This is the novel that Upton Sinclair used to show ...
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    17,33 €

  • The Jungle
    Upton Sinclair
    It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija’s broad shoulders - it was her task to s ...
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