Ebook {Epub PDF} The Cotton-Pickers by B. Traven

The first novel by “B. Traven” originally written in installments and then published in German as "Der Wobbly" in Song of the Cotton-Pickers (which appears on page 3.) Cotton is worn by king and prince, Millionaire and president, But the lowly cotton-picker Sweats to earn each bloody cent/5. Set in the s in Mexico, B. Traven's The Cotton-Pickers tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts in and out of jobs—on a cotton plantation, an oil field, in a pastry shop, and on a ranch—exposing the dangerous exploitation at each station and fomenting workers' rights along the way. The Cotton-Pickers (Jungle Novels) by Traven, B. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru

The Cotton Pickers by B. TRAVEN ~ First Edition ~ Mexico Novel 1st Printing. from France. CS0pJoUQnDs2Q2Zored. The Cotton-Pickers by B. Traven (PB) Traven, B. The Cotton-Pickers B. Traven is the author and a mysterious figure in American and German literature. He was born in Chicago in and spent his youth in Germany, where he became an actor and revolutionary journalist. During the s and the birth of the Mexican Revolution he. The background of The Cotton-Pickers, set in Mexico in the s, is the struggle of the emerging trade unions to end the exploitation of hungry laborers. "Great storytellers often arise like Judaic just men to exemplify and rehearse the truth for their generation. The elusive B. Traven was just such a.

The Cotton-Pickers. Traven, B. [cover design by Milton Glaser] Published by Hill and Wang, New York, ISBN X ISBN Set in the s in Mexico, B. Traven's The Cotton-Pickers tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts in and out of jobs—on a cotton plantation, an oil field, in a pastry shop, and on a ranch—exposing the dangerous exploitation at each station and fomenting workers' rights along the way. The background of The Cotton-Pickers, set in Mexico in the s, is the struggle of the emerging trade unions to end the exploitation of hungry laborers. Gales, a laconic American drifter, turns his hand for anything for a meal and a flea-bitten bunk - he works on a cotton plantation, in an oil field, in a bakery, as a cowboy for a North American ranch owner.