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Upton Sinclair


Born
in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
September 20, 1878

Died
November 25, 1968

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Jack London, Frank Norris, Percy Shelley, Kropotkin, Robert Blatchford ...more


Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). To gather information for the novel, Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover working in the meat packing plants of Chicago. These direct experiences exposed the horrific conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. The Jungle has remained continuously in print since its initial publication. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of Am ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 175,359 ratings · 10,561 reviews · 709 distinct works • Similar authors
The Jungle
3.78 avg rating — 154,569 ratings — published 1906 — 2203 editions
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Oil!
3.74 avg rating — 7,340 ratings — published 1926 — 144 editions
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World's End
4.15 avg rating — 1,440 ratings — published 1940 — 42 editions
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Dragon's Teeth (World's End...
4.07 avg rating — 1,105 ratings — published 1942 — 51 editions
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King Coal
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4.04 avg rating — 992 ratings — published 1917 — 91 editions
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Between Two Worlds
4.30 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 1941 — 27 editions
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The Moneychangers
3.78 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 1908 — 185 editions
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Wide Is the Gate (The Lanny...
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Dragon's Teeth I
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
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“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
― Upton Sinclair
tags: about-the-jungle, disappointment
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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
― Upton Sinclair
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Polls

June 2015 New School Classics Group Read

Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?

1947, The Plague by Albert Camus, 308 pages
 
  9 votes, 20.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  7 votes, 16.3%

 
  6 votes, 14.0%

1989, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 637 pages
 
  5 votes, 11.6%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  4 votes, 9.3%

1905, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 335 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 84 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1965, Stoner by John Williams, 288 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1904, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1921, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

43 total votes
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