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Upton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future A Penguin ClassicPerhaps most well-known today as the inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood, Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! burst i... Read More about Oil!

“Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.” —Edmund WilsonWhen it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of C... Read More about The Jungle

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Deno... Read More about The Jungle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices. Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a sa... Read More about The Jungle

An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle -- his devastating expos of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable ... Read More about The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Upton Sinclair's scathing exposé of early 1900s mainstream media and journalismWritten by acclaimed muck-racking journalist and author of The Jungle—which documented the inhumane conditions in meatpacking plants in the early twentieth century—The Brass Check is Upton Sinclair's piercing critiqu... Read More about The Brass Check: The Seminal Exposé on News Media Censorship and Propaganda