Upton Sinclair

Broschiertes Buch

Sylvia's Marriage

A Novel (1914)

Beschreibung

Sylvia's Marriage is a novel written by Sinclair Upton and originally published in 1914. The book tells the story of Sylvia Castleman, a young woman who is determined to marry for love rather than for money or social status. Sylvia's father, a wealthy businessman, disapproves of her choice of husband and tries to force her to marry a wealthy but unlovable man. Sylvia defies her father and marries her true love, a struggling artist named Gordon Heath. The story follows Sylvia and Gordon's marriage as they struggle to make ends meet and pursue their passions. Despite their love for each other, their marriage is tested by financial difficulties, social pressures, and personal insecurities. Sylvia's father continues to interfere in their lives, and Sylvia must confront her own doubts about her decision to marry for love.Throughout the novel, Sinclair Upton explores themes of love, marriage, class, and the struggle for individual freedom. The book offers a glimpse into the social and cultural mores of early 20th-century America, as well as a timeless exploration of the human heart and its desires. Overall, Sylvia's Marriage is a poignant and thought-provoking novel that continues to resonate with readers today.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781437124699
• ISBN-10: 1437124690
• Artikelnr.: 25508807