Upton Sinclair
In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, Lanny Budd’s financial acumen and his marriage into great wealth enable him to continue the lifestyle he has always enjoyed. But the devastation the collapse has wrought on ordinary citizens has only strengthened Lanny’s socialist...
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a prolific American novelist and a political activist. Apart from his bestselling novels, which told in black and white, illuminated the realities of the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, he is remembered today for championing socialist causes that were naturally unpopular in conservative America. In classics like 'The Jungle' his work had considerable effects on American politics and legislation.
...This 1913 novel is an adaptation of the controversial play Les Avariés, by the French playwright Eugène Brieux, which featured the first frank depiction of sex and STIs. In Sinclair's novelization, George Dupont, while engaged to his cousin, contracts syphilis, leading to a plot which aims to dispel the myths and spread knowledge about sexually transmitted infections.