This 1913 novel is an adaptation of the controversial play
Les Avariés, by the French playwright Eugène Brieux, which featured the first frank depiction of sex and STIs. In Sinclair’s novelization, George Dupont, while engaged to his cousin, contracts syphilis, leading to a plot which aims to dispel the myths and spread knowledge about sexually transmitted infections.
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A propos de l’auteur
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is best remembered for The Jungle (1906), his fictionalized exposé of the unsanitary and unfair working conditions that characterized the U.S. meatpacking industry. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943. A lifelong progressive, he ran for the governor of California in 1934.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781411459502 ● Taille du fichier 0.1 MB ● Âge 99-17 ans ● Maison d’édition Barnes & Noble ● Publié 2011 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8513921 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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