World's End
Published on 19. January 2016
740 pages
978-1-5040-2645-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the acclaimed author of
The Jungle: The first in a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical saga about the son of an American arms dealer during WWI.
Lanning "Lanny" Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his mother's glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious-but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end.
When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him; his language skills and talent for decoding messages are in high demand. At his father's side, he meets many important political and military figures, learns about the myriad causes of the conflict, and closely follows the First World War's progress. When the bloody hostilities eventually conclude, Lanny joins the Paris Peace Conference as the assistant to a geographer asked by President Woodrow Wilson to redraw the map of Europe.
Perfect for fans of The Winds of War, World's End is the magnificent opening chapter of a monumental series that brings the first half of the twentieth century to vivid life. A thrilling mix of history, adventure, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of Upton Sinclair's vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.
Lanning "Lanny" Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his mother's glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious-but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end.
When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him; his language skills and talent for decoding messages are in high demand. At his father's side, he meets many important political and military figures, learns about the myriad causes of the conflict, and closely follows the First World War's progress. When the bloody hostilities eventually conclude, Lanny joins the Paris Peace Conference as the assistant to a geographer asked by President Woodrow Wilson to redraw the map of Europe.
Perfect for fans of The Winds of War, World's End is the magnificent opening chapter of a monumental series that brings the first half of the twentieth century to vivid life. A thrilling mix of history, adventure, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of Upton Sinclair's vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.
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Person
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, activist, and politician whose novel
The Jungle (1906)led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research
The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state's ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including
Oil!(1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie
There Will Be Blood;
Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case;
The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism; and the eleven novels in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lanny Budd series.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Author's Note
- Book One: God's in His Heaven
- 1: Music Made Visible
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- 2: Côte d'Azur
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- 3: Playground of Europe
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- 4: Christmas-Card Castle
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- 5: The Facts of Life
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- 6: Arms and the Man
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- Book Two: A Little Cloud
- 7: The Isles of Greece
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- 8: This Realm, This England
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- 9: Green and Pleasant Land
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- 10: La Belle France
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- 11: C'est la Guerre
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- Book Three: Bella Gerant Alii
- 12: Loved I Not Honour More
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- 13: Women Must Weep
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- 14: The Furies of Pain
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- 15: Amor inter Arma
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- 16: Business as Usual
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- 17: A Man's World
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- 18: Away from All That
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- Book Four: Land of the Pilgrims' Pride
- 19: Old Colonial
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- 20: The Pierian Spring
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- 21: The Thoughts of Youth
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- 22: Above the Battle
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- 23: Midsummer-Night's Dream
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- 24: The World Well Lost
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- Book Five: They Have Sown the Wind
- 25: The Battle Flags Are Furled
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- 26: The Parliament of Man
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- 27: The Federation of the World
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- 28: The Red Peril
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- 29: A Friend in Need
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- 30: Out of the Depths
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- 31: In the Enemy's Country
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- Book Six: They Shall Reap the Whirlwind
- 32: I Have Seen the Future
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- 33: Woe to the Conquered
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- 34: Young Lochinvar
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- 35: I Can No Other
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- 36: The Choice of Hercules
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- 37: Peace in Our Time
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- 38: Battle of the Stags
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- Preview: Between Two Worlds
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
