The Harbor-Fast Shipping

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Ernest Poole’s bestselling, muckraking classic about the plightof the worker.

The best-known novel by the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize forfiction, Ernest Poole’s The Harbor was published in 1915 toinstant acclaim and remains his most important book. At the heart ofthe story is Billy, an aspiring writer who struggles to reconcile hissympathy for workers with his middle-class allegiance to capitalistprogress. As Billy comes of age on the New York waterfront, aneyewitness to explosive tensions between labor and capital thatculminate in a violent strike, he learns to embrace socialism as thesolution to the harbor’s seething injustices. This novel, one of themost direct literary treatments of class warfare, is a valuable socialhistory and a powerful testament to Poole’s legendary talent.