Review:
"Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " Frank Norris's "The Octopus" and John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" are still readable and powerful enough to move the reader, but most other examples of American protest fiction must be soldiered through. To the small company of exceptions should be added "The Harbor" itself, by Ernest Poole, which Penguin Classics has rescued from oblivion." -- Dennis Drabelle, "Washington Post Book World"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe s "Uncle Tom s Cabin, " Frank Norris s "The Octopus" and John Steinbeck s "The Grapes of Wrath" are still readable and powerful enough to move the reader, but most other examples of American protest fiction must be soldiered through. To the small company of exceptions should be added "The Harbor" itself, by Ernest Poole, which Penguin Classics has rescued from oblivion." Dennis Drabelle, "Washington Post Book World""
"Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin, Frank Norris s The Octopus and John Steinbeck s The Grapes of Wrath are still readable and powerful enough to move the reader, but most other examples of American protest fiction must be soldiered through. To the small company of exceptions should be added The Harbor itself, by Ernest Poole, which Penguin Classics has rescued from oblivion." Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World"
Synopsis:
Poole worked as a journalist where he campaigned for social reforms including an end to child labor. On the outbreak of the First World War he worked as a war correspondent for "The Saturday Evening Post". "The Harbor" is his novel about trade unions. The book begins: You chump, I thought contemptuously. I was seven years old at the time, and the gentleman to whom I referred was Henry Ward Beecher. What is was that aroused my contempt for the man will be fore fully understood if I tell first of the grudge I bore him.
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