Index of Titles

Books by UPTON SINCLAIR

“Mammonart,” an economic interpretation of literature and the arts. $2 cloth, $1 paper.

“The Goose-step,” a study of the American colleges. $2 cloth, $1 paper.

“The Goslings,” a study of the American schools. $2 cloth, $1 paper. 3 copies of any of the above books, cloth, $4, paper $2.

The following at $1.50 cloth, $1 paper:

“Manassas,” called by Jack London, “the best Civil War book I’ve read.”

“The Metropolis,” a picture of the “Four Hundred” of New York.

“The Journal of Arthur Stirling,” the literary sensation of 1903.

“The Fasting Cure,” a health study.

The following at $1 in “hard covers”:

“Samuel the Seeker,” a story of Socialism.

“Jimmie Higgins,” a novel of the World War, a best seller in Russia, Italy, France, Germany and Austria.

Complete set of above six reprinted books, $6 cloth, $4 paper-bound.

“Sonnets by M. C. S.,” 25 cents a copy, eight for $1.

“Hell” and “Singing Jailbirds,” two plays, 25 cents each, 8 for $1.

“They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming,” cloth $1.50, paper $1.00.

“The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest,” cloth $2, paper $1.25.

“The Book of Life,” cloth-bound only, $2.

“Damaged Goods,” novelized from the play by Brieux; cloth-bound only, $1.20.

“Sylvia,” a novel, cloth-bound only, $1.20.

“Sylvia’s Marriage,” a novel; “hard covers,” $1.

The following at $1.50, cloth, and $1, paper:

“The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism.”

“100%: The Story of a Patriot.”

“The Profits of Religion.”

“King Coal,” a novel of the Colorado coal country.

“The Jungle,” a novel of the Chicago stock-yards; new edition, cloth-bound only, $1.50.

The following works in the Haldeman-Julius 5-cent Pocket Library: “The Jungle” (6 vols.), “The Millennium” (3 vols.), “The Overman,” “The Pot-Boiler,” “The Second-Story Man,” “The Nature Woman,” “Prince Hagen,” “The Machine,” “A Captain of Industry” (2 vols.). Price for 17 volumes, 85 cents.

UPTON SINCLAIR - Pasadena, California

[Concerning]

The Jungle

Not since Byron awoke one morning to find himself famous has there been such an example of world-wide celebrity won in a day by a book as has come to Upton Sinclair.—New York Evening World.

It is a book that does for modern industrial slavery what “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” did for black slavery. But the work is done far better and more accurately in “The Jungle” than in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”—Arthur Brisbane in the New York Evening Journal.

I never expected to read a serial. I am reading “The Jungle” and I should be afraid to trust myself to tell how it affects me. It is a great work. I have a feeling that you yourself will be dazed some day by the excitement about it. It is impossible that such a power should not be felt. It is so simple, so true, so tragic and so human. It is so eloquent, and yet so exact. I must restrain myself or you may misunderstand.—David Graham Phillips.

In this fearful story the horrors of industrial slavery are as vividly drawn as if by lightning. It marks an epoch in revolutionary literature.—Eugene V. Debs.

Mr. Heinemann isn’t a man to bungle;

He’s published a book which is called “The Jungle.”

It’s written by Upton Sinclair, who

Appears to have heard a thing or two

About Chicago and what men do

Who live in that city—a loathsome crew.

It’s there that the stockyards reek with blood,

And the poor man dies, as he lives, in mud;

The Trusts are wealthy beyond compare,

And the bosses are all triumphant there,

And everything rushes without a skid

To be plunged in a hell which has lost its lid.

For a country where things like that are done

There’s just one remedy, only one,

A latter-day Upton Sinclairism

Which the rest of us know as Socialism.

Here’s luck to the book! It will make you cower,

For it’s written with wonderful, thrilling power.

It grips your throat with a grip Titanic,

And scatters shams with a force volcanic.

Go buy the book, for I judge you need it,

And when you have bought it, read it, read it.

—Punch (London).

A book which has been absolutely boycotted by the literary reviews of America.

THE PROFITS OF RELIGION

By Upton Sinclair

A study of Supernaturalism as a Source of Income and a Shield to Privilege; the first examination in any language of institutionalized religion from the economic point of view. “Has the labour as well as the merit of breaking virgin soil,” writes Joseph McCabe. The book has had practically no advertising and only two or three reviews in radical publications; yet forty thousand copies have been sold in the first year.

From the Rev. John Haynes Holmes: “I must confess that it has fairly made me writhe to read these pages, not because they are untrue or unfair, but on the contrary, because I know them to be the real facts. I love the church as I love my home, and therefore it is no pleasant experience to be made to face such a story as this which you have told. It had to be done, however, and I am glad you have done it, for my interest in the church, after all, is more or less incidental, whereas my interest in religion is a fundamental thing.... Let me repeat again that I feel that you have done us all a service in the writing of this book. Our churches today, like those of ancient Palestine, are the abode of Pharisees and scribes. It is as spiritual and helpful a thing now as it was in Jesus’ day for that fact to be revealed.”

From Luther Burbank: “No one has ever told ‘the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’ more faithfully than Upton Sinclair in ‘The Profits of Religion.’”

From Louis Untermeyer: “Let me add my quavering alto to the chorus of applause of ‘The Profits of Religion.’ It is something more than a book—it is a Work!”

Cloth $1.50; paper $1.00

UPTON SINCLAIR
Station A, Pasadena, California

[CO-OP]

A Novel of Living Together

By Upton Sinclair

From a Sociologist:

Every evening at 10:30 and again at 11:00 I lay down Sinclair’s “Co-op” to go to bed, but in half a minute I pick it up and go on. It is the best thing of his I have ever read. It abounds in character-drawing, incident, adventure, tension, climax, humor and instruction. It is a ripping story. May it circulate a million!

E. A. ROSS, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

From a Philosopher:

I began reading “Co-op” Friday p. m. and hardly laid it down till I finished it Saturday. It is one of the finest things you have done—or anybody else on the American scene has done.

JOHN DEWEY

From a Novelist:

I feel that it is socially important and that it would be a fortunate thing for this country if it were widely read. I really feel that if most of the previous works of Sinclair, particularly “Oil,” “The Brass Check,” “The Profits of Religion,” “King Coal,” “100%,” “The Goose Step,” “Money Writes,” had been widely read and distributed, this country would be in a much better position to understand itself than it is now. “Co-op” is a logical outcome of all the things which Sinclair has protested against during his literary life. I certainly wish for it a wide sale and consideration.

THEODORE DREISER.

From an Editor:

Every word is priceless. It’s a GRAND JOB, Uppie, and I will sing its song.... Your “Co-op” is a thrilling tale, beautifully done.

ROB WAGNER.

From a Reviewer:

This is an engrossing, great-hearted and, of course, desperately earnest novel that Upton Sinclair has written in celebration of and pleading for the 250 co-operatives of unemployed in America, most of them in California.... Not for a long time has Upton Sinclair written so absorbing a novel, as a novel, giving us fine human stories, produced so moving and warming a book. It is a book as honest as the day is long.... Don’t get it into your head that because this is a novel of immediate intent it is a bore like campaign biographies and novels of campaign issues and propaganda tracts. You don’t have to believe in the future of EPIC any more than I do to recognize it as a great humanitarian story, alive and powerful—and effective. It belongs to our times as “The Jungle” belonged to its time. It belongs, too, on that shelf which contains the noblest of social literature.

FRED T. MARSH, IN NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE.

Cloth bound, 435 pages. Price $1.50

Upton Sinclair, New York City and Pasadena, California

[The Brass Check]

A Study of American Journalism

Who owns the press and why?

When you read your daily paper, are you reading facts or propaganda? And whose propaganda?

Who furnishes the raw material for your thoughts about life? Is it honest material?

No man can ask more important questions than these; and here for the first time the questions are answered in a book.

The first edition of this book, 23,000 copies, was sold out two weeks after publication. Paper could not be obtained for printing, and a carload of brown wrapping paper was used. The printings to date amount to 144,000 copies. The book is being published in Great Britain and colonies, and in translations in Germany, France, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Hungary and Japan.

HERMANN BESSEMER, in the “Neues Journal,” Vienna:

“Upton Sinclair deals with names, only with names, with balances, with figures, with documents, a truly stunning, gigantic fact-material. His book is an armored military train which with rushing pistons roars through the jungle of American monster-lies, whistling, roaring, shooting, chopping off with Berserker rage the obscene heads of these evils. A breath-taking, clutching, frightful book.”

From the pastor of the Community Church, New York:

“I am writing to thank you for sending me a copy of your new book, ‘The Brass Check.’ Although it arrived only a few days ago, I have already read it through, every word, and have loaned it to one of my colleagues for reading. The book is tremendous. I have never read a more strongly consistent argument or one so formidably buttressed by facts. You have proved your case to the handle. I again take satisfaction in saluting you not only as a great novelist, but as the ablest pamphleteer in America today. I am already passing around the word in my church and taking orders for the book.”—John Haynes Holmes.

Single copy, cloth, $2.00; paper, $1.00 postpaid

UPTON SINCLAIR, Pasadena, California