Upton Sinclair

La Jungle est un roman écrit par le journaliste et romancier américain Upton Sinclair, paru d'abord en feuilleton entre le 25 février 1905 et le 4 novembre 1905 dans le journal socialiste Appeal to Reason, avant d'être publié en volume en 1906. Il a pour personnage principal Jurgis Rudkus, un immigré lituanien qui …

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 protagonist, Hal Warner. As in his earlier work, The Jungle, Sinclair uses the novel to express his socialist viewpoint. The …

For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much …