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The book documents a century of violence in the American labor movement — from 19th-century mining strikes to bombings and clashes with police — and exposes the brutal background to America's "class war."
East and West (1930) is the first novel by Pearl S. Buck. In the form of a confession, it depicts the profound conflict between East and West, tradition and modernity, through her marriage to an American-trained Chinese doctor.
The first part of the epic trilogy U.S.A. John Dos Passos. A mosaic of the fate of ordinary Americans in the period from 1900 to the First World War – ambition, struggle for survival, social unrest and the birth of modern America.
Upton Sinclair sharply criticizes the relationship between art and capital throughout history. He shows how money and power have always influenced literature, painting, and music, and how great artists were often prisoners of the "golden chain."
Pearl S. Buck depicts the life of Chinese peasant Wang Lung, his rise from poverty to wealth, and the disintegration of family ties. The novel explores the relationship between man and land, tradition, social change, and moral challenges.
Babbitt (1922) is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that depicts the life of George F. Babbitt, a typical American citizen – a successful real estate agent living in the conformity, materialism, and false morality of provincial American society.