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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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A Captain of Industry

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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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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
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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
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A Prisoner of Morro

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Young Cadet Clif Faraday enters the Cuban blockade aboard the converted tug Uncas, hungry for action and soon plunged into the smoke, spray, and suspense of the Spanish-American War. From the first cry of "Steamer ahoy!" the story races through sea chases, gunfire, hidden batteries, boarding actions, prison escapes, and secret missions inside Spanish-held Cuba, where the shadow of Morro Castle and ... Read more

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Young Cadet Clif Faraday enters the Cuban blockade aboard the converted tug Uncas, hungry for action and soon plunged into the smoke, spray, and suspense of the Spanish-American War. From the first cry of "Steamer ahoy!" the story races through sea chases, gunfire, hidden batteries, boarding actions, prison escapes, and secret missions inside Spanish-held Cuba, where the shadow of Morro Castle and
... Read more
Mammonart

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Mammonart is Upton Sinclair's sweeping, combative study of art as a product of class, money, politics, and power. Moving from prehistoric cave drawing to modern literature, it argues that creativity has never stood apart from society's material struggles. Sinclair treats art as a social force shaped by those who fund it, censor it, praise it, and consume it, and he challenges the comforting idea ... Read more

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Mammonart is Upton Sinclair's sweeping, combative study of art as a product of class, money, politics, and power. Moving from prehistoric cave drawing to modern literature, it argues that creativity has never stood apart from society's material struggles. Sinclair treats art as a social force shaped by those who fund it, censor it, praise it, and consume it, and he challenges the comforting idea
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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
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
... Read more

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