King Coal de Upton Sinclair

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

The town of Pedro stood on the edge of the mountain country; a straggling assemblage of stores and saloons from which a number of branch railroads ran up into the canyons, feeding the coal-camps. Through the week it slept peacefully; but on Saturday nights, when the miners came trooping down, and the ranchmen came in on horseback and in automobiles, it wakened to a seething life.

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Bottom of the Hill Publishing – 31 mar 2014	122^.26 lei 3-5 săpt.
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Hastings College Press – 31 mai 2015	109^.75 lei 6-8 săpt.
Echo Library – 31 aug 2006	125^.88 lei 38-44 zile
Aegypan Press – 31 dec 2006	127^.48 lei 6-8 săpt.	+60^.33 lei 5-11 zile
NuVision Publications – 24 apr 2008	145^.55 lei 38-44 zile
Book Jungle – 7 iun 2009	179^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.

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Express

Paperback (10)

57^.05 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

57^.05 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

89^.24 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

118^.30 lei 3-5 săpt.

Bottom of the Hill Publishing – 31 mar 2014

122^.26 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

131^.90 lei 3-5 săpt.

Hastings College Press – 31 mai 2015

109^.75 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 31 aug 2006

125^.88 lei 38-44 zile

Aegypan Press – 31 dec 2006

127^.48 lei 6-8 săpt.

+60^.33 lei 5-11 zile

NuVision Publications – 24 apr 2008

145^.55 lei 38-44 zile

Book Jungle – 7 iun 2009

179^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (1878 - 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence". He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature -- being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.