Boston
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
In the shadow of one of America's most storied cities, Upton Sinclair's Boston unfolds as a searing indictment of justice denied — a sweeping historical novel inspired by the infamous Sacco and Vanzetti case, in which two immigrant anarchists were controversially executed in 1927 amid a storm of public outrage and political manipulation. The novel chronicles the story through the eyes of Cornelia Thornwell, a Boston Brahmin widow who abandons her privileged world to stand alongside the working poor, bearing witness to the machinery of prejudice and power that grinds two innocent men toward their fate. Sinclair's prose is urgent and unflinching, steeped in the social realism that made The Jungle a landmark of American literature, and here he presents a panoramic portrait of class warfare, nativist hysteria, and institutional corruption in 1920s America. Boston stands as one of Sinclair's most ambitious works — a morally charged epic that argues, with passionate conviction, that the American justice system is not blind, but deliberately averted. For readers who dare to ask whether history truly delivers justice, this novel's final pages will linger long after the last chapter is closed.
Author: Upton Sinclair
Format: Hardback
Published: 1929, T. Werner Laurie Ltd.
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
In the shadow of one of America's most storied cities, Upton Sinclair's Boston unfolds as a searing indictment of justice denied — a sweeping historical novel inspired by the infamous Sacco and Vanzetti case, in which two immigrant anarchists were controversially executed in 1927 amid a storm of public outrage and political manipulation. The novel chronicles the story through the eyes of Cornelia Thornwell, a Boston Brahmin widow who abandons her privileged world to stand alongside the working poor, bearing witness to the machinery of prejudice and power that grinds two innocent men toward their fate. Sinclair's prose is urgent and unflinching, steeped in the social realism that made The Jungle a landmark of American literature, and here he presents a panoramic portrait of class warfare, nativist hysteria, and institutional corruption in 1920s America. Boston stands as one of Sinclair's most ambitious works — a morally charged epic that argues, with passionate conviction, that the American justice system is not blind, but deliberately averted. For readers who dare to ask whether history truly delivers justice, this novel's final pages will linger long after the last chapter is closed.