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The Millenium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 de Upton Sinclair

The Millenium: A Comedy of the Year 2000

Autor Upton Sinclair
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 2000
Introduction by Carl Jensen This facinating novel by one of America's best loved writers is set in New York in the year 2000 when capitalism finds its zenith with the building of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile structure in the middle of Central Park. At the opening an experiment goes badly wrong and an explosion kills everyone in the world save eleven of the people at The Pleasure Palace. They struggle to rebuild their lives by creating a new capitalistic society but soon find that to survive they will have to find a new way of life.
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ISBN-13: 9781583220214
ISBN-10: 1583220216
Pagini: 196
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 141 x 209 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Seven Stories Press
Colecția Seven Stories Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Upton Sinclair's fictional vision, created in 1907, explores the state of society at the end of the millennium. Illustrations throughout.

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.