The Upton Sinclair Collection: Including The Jungle, Oil! & The Moneychangers

by Upton Sinclair

Bringing Together The Best of "Upton Sinclair's" works together.

The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.

The book depicts working-class poverty, lack of social support, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power.

A powerful view of turn-of-the-century poverty, graft, and corruption, this fiercely realistic American classic is still required reading in many history and literature classes.

Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome Scandal and takes place in Southern California. The novel incorporates elements of romance, family dynamics, and political intrigue. It explores the personal relationships and struggles of the characters, shedding light on the human cost of industrialization and unregulated capitalism.

It is a social and political satire skewering the human foibles of all its characters.

Oil! is considered one of Upton Sinclair's most influential works, along with his other famous novel, "The Jungle."

The Here Upton Sinclair offers us a novel about the Wall Street panic of 1907. He tells of a financial disaster brought on deliberately by powerful capitalists intent upon the ruin of their rivals - fundamentally evil people who live to out-maneuver one another. We are a nation, said Sinclair, fundamentally corrupt - our government, our banks, our industries all seek personal ruin for its own sake...Sinclair tells an engaging tale; if you don't know his work, you'd do well to take in and understand his paranoid vision...

"The Moneychangers" is a classic work that offers a compelling and insightful perspective on the financial world and its moral complexities during the early 20th century.

1422 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2024

About the author

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 American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after the initial publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Sinclair also ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Socialist, and was the Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California in 1934, though his highly progressive campaign was defeated.