The Second-Story Man

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...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.