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Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel

Author
Upton Sinclair
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 50 minutes
ISBN
9781802565676
Published
27 April 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Upton Sinclair
  • muckraking
  • satire
  • injustice
  • investigative journalism
  • American
  • political
  • social
  • justice
  • corruption

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Description

Sylvia marries for love in early twentieth-century America, then discovers what her husband’s silence has cost her. Upton Sinclair follows a young wife through class pressure, economic dependence, and a secret society preferred not to name. It is a story of trust broken and autonomy fought for, and of how one woman’s marriage becomes a window onto what women were expected to endure and what they dared to demand. Spoken as drama you feel, not a lecture on empowerment.

Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons.

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