Love's Pilgrimage - Couverture souple

Sinclair, Upton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438526970 ISBN 13 : 9781438526973

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2009

Synopsis

Upton Sinclair (1878 Ä 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. Love's Pilgrimage was written in 1911. It advocates the new morals and is an extended account of Sinclair's "love program for a poet." An excerpt reads, "Section 1. It was the Highway of Lost Men. They shivered, and drew their shoulders together as they walked, for it was night, and a cold, sleety rain was falling. The lights from saloons and pawn-shops fell upon their faces--faces haggard and gaunt with misery, or bloated with disease and sin. Some stared before them fixedly; some gazed about with furtive and hungry eyes as they shuffled on. Here and there a policeman stood in the shelter, swinging his club and watching them as they passed. Music called to them from dives and dance-halls, and lighted signs and flaring- colored pictures tempted them in the entrances of cheap museums and theatres; they lingered before these, glad of even a moment's shelter. Overhead the elevated trains pounded by; and from the windows one could see men crowded about the stoves in the rooms of lodging-houses, where the steam from their garments made a blur in the air."

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It was in a little woodland glen, with a streamlet tumbling through it. She sat with her back to a snowy birch-tree, gazing into the eddies of a pool below; and he lay beside her, upon the soft, mossy ground, reading out of a book of poems. Images of joy were passing before them; and there came four lines with a picture— "Hard by, a cottage-chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savory dinner set." "Ah!" said she. "I always loved that. Let us be Corydon and Thyrsis!" He smiled. "They were both of them men," he said. "Let us change it," she responded—"just between ourselves!" "Very well—Corydon!" said he. Then, after a moment's thought, she added, "But we didn't have the cottage." "No," said he—"nor even the dinner!"

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438526970
• ISBN 13: 9781438526973
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 458
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible