Upton Sinclair Books


The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle (1906) is a novel by Upton Sinclair which exposed the horrible conditions of the U.S. meatpacking industry and a corrupt economic system. Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, is treated l..

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single prota..

The Second-Story Man

Upton Sinclair

The Second-Story Man is a one-act play written by Upton Sinclair, an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Excerpts:JIM. Then I went out to look for work. ..

King Midas - a Romance

Upton Sinclair

In the course of this story, the author has had occasion to refer to Beethoven's Sonata Appassionata as containing a suggestion of the opening theme of the Fifth Symphony. He has often seen this state..

The Brass Check

Upton Sinclair

The first half of this book tells a personal story: the story of one man’s experiences with American Journalism. This personal feature is not pleasant, but it is unavoidable. If I were taking the witn..

The Goose-step - A Study of American Education

Upton Sinclair

Six hundred thousand young people are attending colleges and universities in America. They are the pick of our coming generation; they are the future of our country. If they are wisely and soundly tau..

The Cruise of the Training Ship

Upton Sinclair

The orlop on board a man-of-war of the Monongahela type is, it may be well to know, a place in the bow below the level of the berth deck. It is subdivided into small storerooms and has a narrow hallwa..

Good Health and How We Won It

Upton Sinclair

The new ideas of living which are the subject of this book have proceeded from investigation of the human body with the high-power microscope. The discoveries made, which have to do, not so much with ..