{"product_id":"the-harbor-isbn-9780143106449","title":"The Harbor","description":"\u003cb\u003e Ernest Poole's bestselling, muckraking classic about the plight  of the worker. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best-known novel by the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for  fiction, Ernest Poole's \u003ci\u003eThe Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1915 to  instant acclaim and remains his most important book. At the heart of  the story is Billy, an aspiring writer who struggles to reconcile his  sympathy for workers with his middle-class allegiance to capitalist  progress. As Billy comes of age on the New York waterfront, an  eyewitness to explosive tensions between labor and capital that  culminate in a violent strike, he learns to embrace socialism as the  solution to the harbor's seething injustices. This novel, one of the  most direct literary treatments of class warfare, is a valuable social  history and a powerful testament to Poole's legendary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\"Harriet Beecher Stowe’s \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin,\u003c\/i\u003e Frank Norris’s \u003ci\u003eThe Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e and John Steinbeck’s \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e itself, by Ernest Poole, which Penguin Classics has rescued from oblivion.\" — \u003cb\u003eDennis Drabelle, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnest Poole\u003c\/b\u003e (1880-1950) was born in Chicago and educated at  Princeton. In 1902 he began his writing career as a muckraking  journalist, living in a settlement house in the New York slums to  further his research into the causes and conditions of poverty. He  published twenty-four books, including works of fiction, history, and  journalism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Chura\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at the  University of Akron, Ohio.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303730958565,"sku":"NP9780143106449","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143106449.jpg?v=1767739712","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-harbor-isbn-9780143106449","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}