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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

by Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Madame de la Fayette, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Richardson, VOLUME 1, VOLUME 2, VOLUME 3, VOLUME 4, VOLUME 5, VOLUME 6, VOLUME 7, 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 ...

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.
... Read more
The Jungle

Chicago's Packingtown from the Killing Floor

by Upton Sinclair ...

A Lithuanian family arrives in Chicago's Packingtown expecting work and gets the killing floor: rotten meat, wage theft, a wedding debt that never ends, and winter in a house bought on terms designed to break them. Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks living among the stockyard workers and published in 1906; the public was so shaken by the descriptions of the meat that Congress passed a pure food law ... Read more

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A Lithuanian family arrives in Chicago's Packingtown expecting work and gets the killing floor: rotten meat, wage theft, a wedding debt that never ends, and winter in a house bought on terms designed to break them. Upton Sinclair spent seven weeks living among the stockyard workers and published in 1906; the public was so shaken by the descriptions of the meat that Congress passed a pure food law
... Read more
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 Overman

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by Upton Sinclair ...

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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by Upton Sinclair ...

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
... Read more
The Second-story Man

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by Upton Sinclair ...

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
... Read more
The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair ...

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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Damaged Goods

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

by Upton Sinclair ...

Series series Literary Classics
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
The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair ...

Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus arrives in Chicago chasing the American dream and finds instead the brutal, filthy machinery of the meatpacking industry — a world of exploitation, corruption, and unsanitary horrors that Upton Sinclair exposed in unflinching detail. Published in 1906, The Jungle was written to indict the treatment of immigrant workers, but it was the novel's stomach-turning ... Read more

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Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus arrives in Chicago chasing the American dream and finds instead the brutal, filthy machinery of the meatpacking industry — a world of exploitation, corruption, and unsanitary horrors that Upton Sinclair exposed in unflinching detail. Published in 1906, The Jungle was written to indict the treatment of immigrant workers, but it was the novel's stomach-turning
... Read more

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Jimmie Higgins

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Upton Sinclair ...

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!

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by Upton Sinclair ...

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

Restored Classics to Go Edition

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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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

The Jungle

50 Masterpieces You Have to Read

The Overman

The Metropolis

The Second-story Man

The Jungle

Damaged Goods

The Jungle

Jimmie Higgins

Oil!

Damaged Goods

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