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The Overman

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Upton Sinclair's The Overman is a searching, idealistic work built around a single powerful idea: the human being as something unfinished, striving toward a higher form of life. With its prophetic atmosphere of dawn and awakening, the book suggests a serious philosophical and dramatic exploration of ambition, identity, and transformation. Sinclair brings his familiar moral urgency to a story of ... Read more

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Upton Sinclair's The Overman is a searching, idealistic work built around a single powerful idea: the human being as something unfinished, striving toward a higher form of life. With its prophetic atmosphere of dawn and awakening, the book suggests a serious philosophical and dramatic exploration of ambition, identity, and transformation. Sinclair brings his familiar moral urgency to a story of
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The Metropolis

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Allan Montague arrives in New York eager for a new life, only to find a city where ambition, money, and social influence matter as much as talent. Drawn into a veterans' gathering, he meets the old comrades of his father, including the comic yet memorable Major Thorne, the revered Colonel Anderson, and Judge Ellis, whose polished ease and political connections hint at the power of the right circle ... Read more

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Allan Montague arrives in New York eager for a new life, only to find a city where ambition, money, and social influence matter as much as talent. Drawn into a veterans' gathering, he meets the old comrades of his father, including the comic yet memorable Major Thorne, the revered Colonel Anderson, and Judge Ellis, whose polished ease and political connections hint at the power of the right circle
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The Second-story Man

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In the dead of night, a bungling burglar named Jim Faraday breaks into the Austin home and finds not fear, but calm compassion. Helen Austin meets him with gentle questions instead of a cry for help, drawing out the truth behind his first robbery and turning a crime in progress into a devastating confession about poverty, desperation, and survival. As Jim tells his story, the real theft comes into ... Read more

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In the dead of night, a bungling burglar named Jim Faraday breaks into the Austin home and finds not fear, but calm compassion. Helen Austin meets him with gentle questions instead of a cry for help, drawing out the truth behind his first robbery and turning a crime in progress into a devastating confession about poverty, desperation, and survival. As Jim tells his story, the real theft comes into
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50 Masterpieces You Have to Read

Volume Two - A Second Library of World Literature

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Madame de La Fayette, Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, D. H. Lawrence, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Richardson, George Sand, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Henryk Sienkiewicz, May Sinclair, Upton Sinclair, Stendhal, Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jonathan Swift, Rabindranath Tagore, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Lew Wallace, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Cao Xueqin, Émile Zola ...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation ... Read more

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The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation
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The Jungle

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What happens when the pursuit of the American Dream collides with poverty, exploitation, and an unforgiving system? In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair follows Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Chicago with his family hoping to build a better life. Instead, they encounter brutal working conditions, poverty, exploitation, corruption, and a society that offers little protection to ... Read more

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What happens when the pursuit of the American Dream collides with poverty, exploitation, and an unforgiving system? In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair follows Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Chicago with his family hoping to build a better life. Instead, they encounter brutal working conditions, poverty, exploitation, corruption, and a society that offers little protection to
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Prince Hagen

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Upton Sinclair's Prince Hagen turns myth into a glittering social satire, beginning in a Canadian wilderness where the poetically inclined Gerald Isman meets the cryptic peddler Mimi and is drawn into talk of Nibelungs, gold, and hidden powers beneath the earth. A magic ring, a trance, and eerie music carry him into Nibelheim, where King Alberich rules a world of treasure, art, and oppressive ... Read more

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Upton Sinclair's Prince Hagen turns myth into a glittering social satire, beginning in a Canadian wilderness where the poetically inclined Gerald Isman meets the cryptic peddler Mimi and is drawn into talk of Nibelungs, gold, and hidden powers beneath the earth. A magic ring, a trance, and eerie music carry him into Nibelheim, where King Alberich rules a world of treasure, art, and oppressive
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100%: The Story of a Patriot

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Upton Sinclair's The Story of a Patriot follows Peter Gudge, a hungry, undersized drifter whose petty schemes and survival instincts carry him into the middle of a city convulsed by war fever, labor conflict, and anti-radical hysteria. Drawn toward a patriotic parade as much by the hope of a meal as by curiosity, Peter is caught in a bombing and quickly realizes that panic may be more useful than ... Read more

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Upton Sinclair's The Story of a Patriot follows Peter Gudge, a hungry, undersized drifter whose petty schemes and survival instincts carry him into the middle of a city convulsed by war fever, labor conflict, and anti-radical hysteria. Drawn toward a patriotic parade as much by the hope of a meal as by curiosity, Peter is caught in a bombing and quickly realizes that panic may be more useful than
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The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair

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Upton Sinclair turns his autobiography into a vivid, self-mocking chronicle of a life spent testing ideas, challenging conventions, and colliding with history. He begins with a sweeping self-portrait that moves from childhood poverty in Baltimore to literary fame, political activism, and the restlessness that drove him from one cause, colony, and conviction to the next. Beneath the comic detail ... Read more

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Upton Sinclair turns his autobiography into a vivid, self-mocking chronicle of a life spent testing ideas, challenging conventions, and colliding with history. He begins with a sweeping self-portrait that moves from childhood poverty in Baltimore to literary fame, political activism, and the restlessness that drove him from one cause, colony, and conviction to the next. Beneath the comic detail
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Damaged Goods

The Great Play "Les Avariés" by Brieux, Novelized with the Approval of the Author

by Upton Sinclair ...

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A young man of good family catches syphilis a month before his wedding, is told by a quack that he can marry safely, and does. Brieux's play was banned in France and prosecuted in America; Sinclair novelised it in 1913 to get the argument past the censors, having already spent seven weeks undercover in the Chicago stockyards to write The Jungle. It is a public-health pamphlet with characters, and ... Read more

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A young man of good family catches syphilis a month before his wedding, is told by a quack that he can marry safely, and does. Brieux's play was banned in France and prosecuted in America; Sinclair novelised it in 1913 to get the argument past the censors, having already spent seven weeks undercover in the Chicago stockyards to write The Jungle. It is a public-health pamphlet with characters, and
... Read more
Jimmie Higgins

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Jimmie Higgins is a devoted Socialist, a weary husband, and a working-class propagandist whose faith in a better future is tested by poverty, family life, and the brutal realities of labor. Torn between his wife Lizzie's wish to go to the movies and the urgent demands of a major anti-war meeting, he heads to the Opera-house, where red banners, union emblems, and the shock of Europe's gathering war ... Read more

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Jimmie Higgins is a devoted Socialist, a weary husband, and a working-class propagandist whose faith in a better future is tested by poverty, family life, and the brutal realities of labor. Torn between his wife Lizzie's wish to go to the movies and the urgent demands of a major anti-war meeting, he heads to the Opera-house, where red banners, union emblems, and the shock of Europe's gathering war
... Read more
Oil!

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In Southern California's feverish boomtown world, Upton Sinclair traces a civilization built on ambition, deception, and the ruthless pursuit of wealth. Oil money, celebrity culture, political power, and mass spectacle reshuffle appearances, but corruption and moral compromise remain the real currency of success. Through the rise of self-made men like J. Arnold Ross, the strain of family loyalties ... Read more

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In Southern California's feverish boomtown world, Upton Sinclair traces a civilization built on ambition, deception, and the ruthless pursuit of wealth. Oil money, celebrity culture, political power, and mass spectacle reshuffle appearances, but corruption and moral compromise remain the real currency of success. Through the rise of self-made men like J. Arnold Ross, the strain of family loyalties
... Read more
Damaged Goods

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by Upton Sinclair ...

Upton Sinclair's Damaged Goods, his novelized version of Eugène Brieux's celebrated social drama, combines reform-minded urgency with the force of a moral thriller. Introduced as a public crusade against sexual ignorance and disease, the work was praised by critics, clergy, politicians, and physicians for its frankness, dignity, and educational power. Built as a thesis drama, it insists that ... Read more

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Upton Sinclair's Damaged Goods, his novelized version of Eugène Brieux's celebrated social drama, combines reform-minded urgency with the force of a moral thriller. Introduced as a public crusade against sexual ignorance and disease, the work was praised by critics, clergy, politicians, and physicians for its frankness, dignity, and educational power. Built as a thesis drama, it insists that
... Read more

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