Author: Upton Sinclair
Publisher: Aegypa
Keywords: metropolis
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1603120386
ISBN-13: 9781603120388

Upton Sinclair is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Dragon’s Teeth. His best known work is The Jungle, a novel about the abhorrent practices of the meat packing industry at the time. When Allan Montague arrives in New York, he is swept into the lifestyle of the fashionable. They know him through his father who was a General in the war. The longer he stays in New York, the more he realizes that there is a huge disparity between the classes. When an injustice befalls the poor, Allan is the first to fight for what is right. But as he continues his lawsuit, he begins to realize that the v

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Aegypa
Keywords: confession
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1598184717
ISBN-13: 9781598184716

Confession is Leo Tolstoy’s memoir of midlife spiritual crisis. In 1879, having written War and Peace and Anna Karenina, the 51 year-old Tolstoy began to believe that his life was meaningless. Confession is his account of the limited satisfactions he derived from his aesthetic and intellectual triumphs, and of his first yearnings for real faith. This book marks the turning point in his career as a writer: after 1880 he would write almost exclusively about religious life, especially devotion among the peasantry (in works such as The Death of Ivan Ilych and Resurrection). Near the end of C