Upton Sinclair

En el invierno de 1939, Alemania es una boa constrictor engullendo Checoslovaquia y preparada para invadir Polonia. Barcelona ha sido tomada por Franco y la Francia de Daladier y la Inglaterra de Chamberlain no saben si temer mas al nazismo de Hitler o al bolchevismo ruso. En EEUU, los nazi-fascistas inflaman el pais con su nacionalismo exacerbado: America primero.Desde su tapadera como marchante de arte filofascista, el encantador Lanny Budd en realidad, agente secreto antinazi para el presidente Roosevelt, viaja incansable por Europa recabando informacion sobre las altas esferas para la causa socialista. La cosecha del dragon es la sexta entrega de la saga de Lanny Budd. Un nuevo capitulo de la historia del siglo XX contado al estilo de las mejores novelas de espias.

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.

The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878 to1968). The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.

Esta obra, si bien desde la ficción, atestigua el movimiento minero en Estados Unidos. La novela denuncia las injusticias anticonstitucionales ejercidas por los grandes consorcios mineros hacia sus trabajadores en un intento por reflexionar sobre las bases del imperio estadounidense (y de cualquier sociedad capitalista). Cada seccion aborda problematicas diferentes si bien siguiendo un eje narrativo coherente: los temas van desde corrupcion dentro de los campos mineros hasta la vision y conciencia de la clase privilegiada ante la mano obrera.

A través del audaz magnate del petróleo Arnold Ross, un hombre hecho a sí mismo, y su idealista hijo Bun, esta novela nos hace el mejor retrado literario de la California del siglo XX. Sin ocultar en exceso sus referentes reales y tomando como punto de partida Beach City (Long Beach), los personajes nos van introduciendo en un turbulento mundo poblado por combativos lideres sindicales y empresarios sin escrupulos, banqueros avidos de poder y falsos mesias, politicos corruptos y actrices dispuestas a vender su alma... Un estremecedor reflejo de los escandalos politicos y economicos protagonizados por la "banda de Ohio" durante la presidencia de Warren G. Harding (1921-1923).

This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the inspiration for the Paramount Vantage major motion picture, There Will Be Blood. It is the long-awaited film from Paul Thomas Anderson, one of the most admired filmmakers working today whose previous movies, Boogie Nights and Magnolia were both multiple Academy Award nominees. The movie stars Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York, My Left Foot) and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine).

Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel. Watch the film trailer for There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day Lewis.

El audaz magnate del petróleo Arnold Ross, un hombre hecho a sí mismo, y su idealista hijo Bun vehiculan el mejor retrato literario de la California del siglo xx jamás escrito. Sin ocultar en exceso sus referentes reales y tomando como punto de partida Beach City (Long Beach), los personajes de Sinclair introducen al lector en un turbulento mundo poblado por combativos lideres sindicales y empresarios sin escrupulos, banqueros avidos de poder y falsos mesias , politicos corruptos y actrices dispuestas a vender su alma.Un estremecedor reflejo de los escandalos economicos por la llamada banda de Ohio durante la presidencia de Warren G. Harding (1921-1923); una novela que nos golpea directamente en el estomago y que Paul Thomas Anderson ha convertido en una gran pelicula: Pozos de ambicion.

In 1864, New York is a city divided. The rich live high in the air and the poor toil below. Allan Montague comes here from Virginia with his father to seek success. He becomes embroiled in a battle between two of the most powerful men in New York. And when injustice befalls a poor man, Allan will stop at nothing to right what he sees as wrongs against the working class.Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclairs work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

100%: The Story Of A Patriot is a novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1920.The story follows the life of Peter Gudge, a poor and uneducated man who is radicalized by the social injustices he experiences in his daily life. Gudge becomes involved in the Socialist movement and eventually joins the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical labor union that advocated for the overthrow of the capitalist system."100%: The Story Of A Patriot" is a powerful critique of American society and politics, and remains a classic work of American literature.Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclairs work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

Oil! is a novel written by Upton Sinclair and published in 1927. The novel tells the story of an oil tycoon named J. Arnold Ross, who builds his wealth by exploiting the resources and labor of the American Southwest. The novel is a critique of the oil industry and the capitalist system that allows individuals like Ross to become incredibly wealthy at the expense of workers and the environment. Sinclair portrays Ross as a ruthless businessman who will stop at nothing to maintain his power and control over the oil industry. He also highlights the exploitation of workers, particularly Mexican migrant laborers, who are subjected to dangerous working conditions and low pay.Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was an American author, journalist, and political activist. He is best known for his muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906), which exposed the unsanitary and dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.

The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair and published in 1906. It is a fictionalized account of the harsh working and living conditions of immigrant laborers in the meatpacking industry in Chicago in the early 20th century.The Jungle caused a national uproar and led to significant changes in food safety laws and regulations. The book is often credited with helping to create the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, both of which were signed into law in 1906.Upton Beall SinclairJr. (September 20, 1878 November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclairs work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.

It was four oclock 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 Marijas broad shouldersit was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself. She had left the church last of all, and, desiring to arrive first at the hall, had issued orders to the coachman to drive faster. When that personage had developed a will of his own in the matter, Marija had flung up the window of the carriage, and, leaning out, proceeded to tell him her opinion of him, first in Lithuanian, which he did not understand, and then in Polish, which he did. Having the advantage of her in altitude, the driver had stood his ground and even ventured to attempt to speak; and the result had been a furious altercation, which, continuing all the way down Ashland Avenue, had added a new swarm of urchins to the cortege at each side street for half a mile.