Our Lady de Upton Sinclair

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 the 30's and 40's, that it is the finest book ever done by Upton. A parable for moderns, it yet has all of the speed and suspense of a closely-knit novel. This book has never been reprinted since it was published over 65 years ago and was a rare book before a copy was found. A Collector's Edition!

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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.