The cry for justice : an anthology of the literature of social protest; the writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice, selected from twenty-five languages, covering a period of five thousand years
Title:
The cry for justice : an anthology of the literature of social protest; the writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice, selected from twenty-five languages, covering a period of five thousand years
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Publication Information:
Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Company, [1915]
©1915
Physical Description:
891 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Contents:
Toil. -- The chasm. -- The outcast. -- Out of the depths. -- Revolt. -- Martyrdom. -- Jesus. -- The church. -- The voice of the ages. -- Mammon. -- War. -- Country. -- Children. -- Humor. -- The poet. -- Socialism. -- The new day.
Summary:
Presents American author Upton Sinclair's selection of works of literature that portray American progressivism and reflect struggles against social injustice. Included are essays, stories, plays, and poems by such writers as Sinclair himself, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Zola, Kipling, Whitman, Shaw, Chesterton, Masefield, Galsworthy, London, Norris, Carlyle, Wilde, and many more.