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The Jungle is Upton Sinclair's novel about an immigrant family from
Lithuania that comes to Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century,
to seek opportunity and fortune. What they find instead is unscrupulous
landlords and ruthless employers; poor living conditions and working conditions
that are worse. Although the story is a broad depiction of working-class life
in Chicago before WWI, complete with crooked landlords and political corruption
that included collusion between union leaders, political bosses and abusive
employers; reform-minded politicians made use of the book to bring attention
to the unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Political action,
stimulated by the popularity of The Jungle brought about passage of
both The Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act in
1906 (the same year year that the book was first published).
The Jungle (1906)
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair |
Size: 426 KB |
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The Metropolis (1908)
The Metropolis
by Upton Sinclair |
Size: 291 KB |
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Adam Smith
was a Scottish philosopher whom many regard as the father of
Capitalism. He
was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. He attended the University of Glasgow and
then Balliol College at Oxford (England).
He is the author of two notable works that are commonly known as The
Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The Wealth of
Nations (1776). (The actual titles are much longer.)
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Although not all of this work has stood the test of time, much of Adam
Smith's dissertation on capitalism is still valid and is taught in classes
on economics even to this day.
Our publication of the The Wealth of Nations, in similitude of
the original edition, is presented in five volumes.
The Wealth of Nations, volume 1
by Adam Smith |
Size: 274 KB |
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The Wealth of Nations, volume 2
by Adam Smith |
Size: 104 KB |
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The Wealth of Nations, volume 3
by Adam Smith |
Size: 50 KB |
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The Wealth of Nations, volume 4
by Adam Smith |
Size: 295 KB |
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The Wealth of Nations, volume 5
by Adam Smith |
Size: 303 KB |
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Alphonso Smith was a professor of English Literature. The volume of
short stories that is offered here is a text book about the construction
of short stories, written for college classes in literary analysis.
In notes that precede each of the short stories in this collection,
Professor Smith considers the Plot, Setting, and
Characters of each story. The complete text of the short story
follows Dr. Smith's analysis.
The stories in this collection include:
- ESTHER (from the Old Testament)
- THE HISTORY OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY ROBBERS
(from The Arabian Nights)
- RIP VAN WINKLE (Washington Irving, 1819)
- THE GOLD-BUG (Edgar Allan Poe, 1843)
- A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Charles Dickens, 1843)
- THE GREAT STONE FACE (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850)
- RAB AND HIS FRIENDS (Dr. John Brown, 1858)
- THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT (Bret Harte, 1869)
- MARKHEIM (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1884)
- THE NECKLACE (Guy De Maupassant, 1885)
- THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (Rudyard Kipling, 1888)
- THE GIFT OF THE MAGI (O. Henry, 1905)
Short Stories Old and New
Edited by C. Alphonso Smith |
Size: 286 KB |
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