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  • The Jungle

    Chicago's Packingtown from the Killing Floor

    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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  • The Metropolis

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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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  • The Overman

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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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  • The Second-story Man

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    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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  • The Jungle

    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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  • Damaged Goods

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

    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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  • The Jungle

    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

    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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  • A Captain of Industry

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Upton Sinclair's A Captain of Industry is a sharp satirical portrait of inherited wealth, social polish, and the moral evasions of America's ruling class. It follows Robert van Rensselaer, born into New York luxury and trained from childhood to be the perfect gentleman, as he grows into a charming but hollow society figure whose pleasures are protected by money and discretion. When his father ... Read more

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  • King Midas

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In the luminous woods of spring, Upton Sinclair's King Midas begins with a meeting charged by music, longing, and the awakening of first love. A solitary young man in black waits by a spring for Helen, the radiant girl in white whose singing seems to merge her with the stream, the birds, and the flowering forest around her. Their reunion is tender and astonished, shaped by childhood memory, ... Read more

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