Samuel the Seeker

Samuel the Seeker


Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair

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“Samuel the Seeker”, the social/political satire introduces us to Samuel Prescott, a young man who sets out on a journey to make his fortune after his father loses everything in a bad stock market investment. As he travels, Samuel is exposed to the harsh realities of society and the various ideologies that people adopt to make sense of it all....More
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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer and political activist who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar. Many of his novels can be read as historical works. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of the industrialized United States from both the working man's and the industrialist's points of view. Novels such as King...More

Publish Date : 06 Mar 2023

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