BOOK WIDE IS THE GATE BY UPTON SINCLAIR (BOX44)

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COPYRIGHT: 1943 BY UPTON SINCLAIR

COPYRIGHT RENEWED 1971 BY DAVID SINCLAIR

PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WIT THE ESTATE OF UPTON SINCLAIR

PUBLISHER: CURTIS BOOKS: NEW YORK, NY

**"THE SOARING LOVE STORY OF LANNY BUDD AND A YOUND JEWISH GIRL--AN IDEALISTIC CHOICE WITH SHATTERING REPERCUSSIONS.  

**HITLIER'S WILL WAS THE LAW OF GERMANY. THE PENALTY FOR DISOBEDIENCE WAS DEATH, TRUDI HAD DEFIED THE FUEHRER. WAS LANNY MAN ENOUGH TO SAVE HER?

********LANNY BUDD WAS ONE OF THE MOST DASHING AND ATTRACTIVE MEN IN EUROPE. LANNY'S WIFE, THE FORMER IRMA BARNES, HAD INHERITED 23 MILLION DOLLARS FROM HER FATHER, AND ARCH-CAPITITALIST. IRMA LOVED HER HUSBAND VERY MUCH, BUT SHE LOVED HER MONEY MORE. WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT LANNY WAS USING HIS MONEY IN OPPOSITION TO THE RULING CLASS, SHE TURNED AGAINST HIM.  THEN LANNY MET THE SAINTLY AND FRAGILE IDEALIST, TRUDI SCHULTZ. THE GESTAPO WAS HOT ON TRUDI'S TRAIL WHEN SHE APPEALED TO LANNY TO SMUGGLE HER OUT OF GERMANY.  LANNY KNEW THE MOMENT OF TRUTH HAD COME.  HE HAD TO SAVE TRUDI, AND HE COULDN'T LET IRMA STOP HIM!  

***I HAVE NEVER READ THIS NOVEL, BUT AFTER READING THIS TEASER, IT MAKES ME WANTS TO SIT DOWN AND DEVOUR THE BOOK TO DISCOVER WHAT HAPPENS TO TRUDI AND LANNY