Jurgis Rudkus, an impoverished Lithuanian immigrant, takes a lowly job at Brown's slaughterhouse to support his young wife and their relatives. Once admiring America for its potential, Rudkus has found opportunities to be too far out of his reach...
The second in the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning historical fiction series takes Lanny Budd through the 1920s, from the rise of fascism to the crash on Wall Street. The First World War brought an abrupt end to Lanny Budd’s idyllic youth. Now, in the wake...
TITLE: ANOTHER PAMELA or, Virtue Still Rewarded By UPTON SINCLAIR 1950 First Edition AUTHOR: UPTON SINCLAIR PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: THE VIKING PRESS, NY 1950 EDITION: First Published by the Viking Press in April 1950 CATEGORY: Religion, F...
As Presidential Agent 103, Lanny Budd witnesses the collapse of the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the Nuremberg Trials in this novel in the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning saga. As a spy for President Franklin Roosevelt, Lanny Budd was ab...
The Return of Lanny Budd is the eleventh and final book in the enormous epic Lanny Budd World's End series written by Pulitzer Prize Winner and legend, Upton Sinclair. Written in 1953 at the pinnacle of the Cold War, this story covers the period betw...
The protracted trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was the most controversial political event of the 1920s. Today, more than seventy years after their execution, the events surrounding the case of Sacco and Vanzetti are still the source of debate. Truly, it ...
The Flivver King stands among the finest of modern American historical novels. It is history as it ought to be written - from the bottom up and the top down, with monumental sensitivity to the compromise and conflict between the two extremes. Its two...
Lanny Budd infiltrates the Nazi high command in the riveting sixth chapter of Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning series of historical novels Dashing and well-connected, Lanny Budd has earned the trust of the Nazi high command. To Adolf Hitle...
Pulitzer Prize Winner: An American in Germany fights against the rising tide of Nazi terror in this monumental saga of twentieth-century world history. In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, Lanny Budd’s financial acumen and his marriage into ...
As D-Day approaches, an American spy is unmasked by Himmler’s Gestapo and must flee the Nazis, in this novel in the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning historical saga. In 1943, the once-unstoppable Nazi war machine is starting to falter. For a decade and a ...
On the eve of World War II, Lanny Budd reenters the deadly snake pit of Nazi Germany as Roosevelt’s spy -- in the pulse-pounding, Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning series. An American art expert raised in a world of European wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd...
America is at war, and Lanny Budd risks life and limb from North Africa to Moscow on behalf of the Allied cause in this “absorbing” historical novel (The New York Times). Members of the German high command believe that American art expert Lanny B...
Presidential secret agent Lanny Budd is called back into action in post-war Germany as the Cold War begins Since the age of thirteen, Lanny Budd has been more than an eyewitness to history. From the Paris Peace Conference to the Battle of the Bulge, ...
Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning saga continues as Lanny Budd faces the horrors of Nazi Germany and steps into the fire of the Spanish Civil War Lanny Budd’s dedication to social justice and political action has placed a serious strain o...
Presidential Agent 103 is targeted by allies and enemies alike as the Nazis roll across Europe in this novel in the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning series. Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And Pr...
From the acclaimed author of The Jungle: The first in a Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning historical saga about the son of an American arms dealer during WWI. Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his moth...
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...
Jimmie Higgins (originally published in 1919) portrays the dilemma of American leftists who felt temporarily obliged to support the ruling classes of England and France during the World War I. Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a prolific American noveli...
A returned Christ appears in California and is again rejected. Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, and juvenile book writer, whose works reflected the social problems of 19th Century ...
From the book - which will give you an insight to the total content of this political novel. "Also he had a bit of genuine anxiety. He told the truth when he said to Guggy that he didn't know what a 'Red' was but since then he had been making inquire...
A "Personal Jesus" takes the life of Jesus as Upton Sinclair imagines him to be. Sinclair breaks up this novel into 3 sections- youth, mission and spirit. Again, he delves into religon and leaves his usual path of politics - but are not religions - C...
In this 1907 novel about the extravagant life of New York City's high society, the author of The Jungle, presents a richly detailed portrait of the wealthy elite of "The Metropolis."Allan Montague, a lawyer of thirty, moves to New York City from Miss...
1922. Sinclair, American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflected his socialistic views. Among his most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, a...
Best known for his muckraking expose of the squalor and brutality that pervaded the livestock industry in his book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's political activism was not limited to issues of workers' rights or workplace safety. These nine short work...
[The scene shows a luxuriously furnished room. In the centre is a table with a lamp. To the right is the entrance into the front hall, the front door of the house being visible. In the corner is a cabinet of curios. In the rear is a large window open...
A 1930 Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) novel about the evils of money in the story of a westerner's quest to become a tycoon. One reviewer called it, "exactly the kind of novel Horatio Alger might have written if he had possessed a social conscience."...
This volume, recently reformatted to meet current ebook standards such as having an active table of contents, is the fifth in the Baltimore Authors series, contains seven books by Upton Sinclair: The Jungle, The Machine, The Moneychangers, King Coal,...
The Fictional Bank Panic of 1907Lucy Dupree is new in the fabulous city of New York and wants to meet the big boys of Wall Street. So she asks Allan Montague, a childhood friend, for help. This is how she is introduced to two major brokers who contro...
The whole class came to the meeting. There hadn't been such an important meeting at West Point for many a day. The yearling class had been outrageously insulted. The mightiest traditions of the academy had been violated, "trampled beneath the dust," ...
A Prisoner of Morro - In the Hands of the Enemy is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Upton Sinclair is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you en...
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Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" is one of the most famous and widely read books in America during the 20th century. In addition to being considered a classic, its description of slaughterhouses helped bring about the establishment of FDA regulations fo...
Upton Sinclair was a very influential American author in the 20th century. Sinclair won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943 and he is still among the most widely read authors today. Sinclair was a prolific writer and his books often served as hars...
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" is one of the most famous and widely read books in America during the 20th century. In addition to being considered a classic, its description of slaughterhouses helped bring about the establishment of FDA regulations fo...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
Books four through six in the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning series of historical novels about an international spy in the first half of the twentieth century. An ambitious and entertaining mix of history, adventure, and romance, Upton Sincla...
Upton Sinclair’s First Novel
It is very rare that a novel by a major American author is not published as a book for over a century after it was written, so we are proud to be the first to publish Upton Sinclair’s earliest full-length novel i...
The writer of this book has been in this world some forty-two years. That may not seem long to some, but it is long enough to have made many painful mistakes, and to have learned much from them. Looking about him, he sees others making these same mis...
American writer Upton Sinclair rose to literary acclaim for his fearlessness in broaching sensitive and incendiary topics, and this collaboration with French playwright Eugene Brieux is no exception. A novelized rendition of Brieux's scandal-stirring...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.[JULIA PATTERSON'S apartments in a model tenement on the lower East Side. The scene shows the living- room, furnished very plainly, but in the newest taste; arts and crafts furniture, portraits of Morris and...
In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile-high structure in the middle of Central Park. During the grand open...
The classic novel that inspired the Academy award-winning film, There Will Be Blood. Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of Oil!, the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatp...
Sinclair begins, “This is the story of Edward B---, as he told it to me a few days before he died...” In this 1907 variation on Robinson Crusoe, an English musician marooned on a desert island for twenty years discovers his true self and his plac...
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Those five men made a heroic resolution. But it was inevitable . . . for they did not mean for their valuable ship to fall into the hands of the enemy. And they made known their determination -- for they kept battering away at the big hulk that lo...
Upton Sinclair is a very prolific American writer and novelist of the early twentieth century. His major fictional work is The Jungle which was first published in serial form in a socialist newspaper. It made of Sinclair an established author when it...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Excerpt from The Spy 1. Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realising how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come. ...
“It may be said at once that this is the best novel Mr. Sinclair has yet written -- so much the best that it stands in a class by itself” -- The New York Times, lauding this 1913 work about “a much-discussed theme.” Sylvia, a flirtatious soci...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...