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Bezig met laden... The Harbor (Penguin Classics) (1915)door Ernest Poole
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. (1915) A well-to-do young man grows up in Brooklyn as the age of sail gives way to the steam age. His father is a shipping magnate, but cannot adjust to the changing times and loses all his money. The young man goes to Harvard and becomes a journalist. He writes about the great men of his class for a while, but gradually gets dragged into the plight of the working class. He writes about a strike of the stokers who make all the new ships go stoking the engines with coal in twelve hour shifts in awful conditions, but he can never quite reconcile his own life of privilege with the suffering he sees around him. In the end he stays pretty safe and nothing really changes, but he thought about the issues a lot. An incredible portrayal of New York's docks and dock workers. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Ernest Poole's bestselling, muckraking classic about the plight of the worker. The best-known novel by the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Ernest Poole's The Harbor was published in 1915 to instant acclaim and remains his most important book. At the heart of the story is Billy, an aspiring writer who struggles to reconcile his sympathy for workers with his middle-class allegiance to capitalist progress. As Billy comes of age on the New York waterfront, an eyewitness to explosive tensions between labor and capital that culminate in a violent strike, he learns to embrace socialism as the solution to the harbor's seething injustices. This novel, one of the most direct literary treatments of class warfare, is a valuable social history and a powerful testament to Poole's legendary talent. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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