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The Metropolis

Author
Upton Sinclair
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
8 hours 49 minutes
ISBN
9781911065685
Published
18 July 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • opulence
  • corruption
  • Gilded Age
  • high society
  • greed
  • moral decay
  • New York City
  • elite
  • wealth
  • power

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Description

This gripping novel follows Allan Montague, a young lawyer who enters the dazzling high society of New York City, only to uncover a web of corruption, greed, and moral decay. As Montague navigates the glittering ballrooms and shadowy boardrooms of the elite, he is forced to confront the stark realities behind the facade of wealth and power. Sinclair's incisive critique of the American Gilded Age unveils the stark contrasts between opulence and poverty, integrity and vice.

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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