King Midas: a Romance

Upton Sinclair

Chapter 1 It was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.

Upton Sinclair

_To_ Kate Crane Gartz in acknowledgment of her unceasing efforts for a better world, and her fidelity to those who struggle to achieve it.

Upton Sinclair

TO MARY CRAIG KIMBROUGH To whose persistence in the perilous task of tearing her husband's manuscript to pieces, the reader is indebted for the absence of most of the faults from this book.

Upton Sinclair

CONTENTS NEW YORK VANGUARD PRESS VANGUARD PRINTINGS First-January, 1927 Second-April, 1927 Third-June, 1928 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OFFERTORY This book is a stud...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...