About “King Coal”

King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that portrays the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, as seen through the perspective of the protagonist Hal Warner. The novel reflects Sinclair's socialist viewpoint and is based on the 1913–1914 Colorado coal strikes and written shortly after the Ludlow massacre.

Book details

Published
1917
Latest edition
1917 · ISBN 9781437860900
ISBN
9781437860900

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How many pages is King Coal?

King Coal by Upton Sinclair has 428 pages.

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