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Sylvia's Marriage

Upton Sinclair

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .She quoted from Kropotkin: "'Fields, Factories and Work- shops,' on sale at this meeting for a quarter!"—showing how by modern intensive farming—no matter of theory, but methods which were in commercial use in hundreds of places—it would be possible to feed the entire population of the globe from the soil of the British Isles alone. She showed by the bulletins of the United States Government how the machine process had increased the productive power of the individual labourer ten, twenty, a hundred fold. So vast was man's power of producing wealth today, and yet the labourer lived in dire want just as in the days of crude hand-industry!

So she came back to her millionaire, upon whom this evil rested. He was the master of the machine for whose profit the labourer had to produce. He could only employ the labourer to produce what could be sold at a profit; and so the stream of prosperity was choked at its source. "It is you, Mr. Millionaire, who are to blame for. . . Read More

Community Reviews

The story is told by Mary Abbott, about Sylvia and about herself. Sylvia is from Society, while Mary has lived hard working farmer's life.

"I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first "common" person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off

The story is told by Mary Abbott, about Sylvia and about herself. Sylvia is from Society, while Mary has lived hard working farmer's life.

"I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first "common" person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off

The story is told by Mary Abbott, about Sylvia and about herself. Sylvia is from Society, while Mary has lived hard working farmer's life.

"I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first "common" person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off

The story is told by Mary Abbott, about Sylvia and about herself. Sylvia is from Society, while Mary has lived hard working farmer's life.

"I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first "common" person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off

The story is told by Mary Abbott, about Sylvia and about herself. Sylvia is from Society, while Mary has lived hard working farmer's life.

"I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first "common" person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off

The story is told by Mary Abbott, about Sylvia and about herself. Sylvia is from Society, while Mary has lived hard working farmer's life.

"I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first "common" person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off

The story is told by Mary Abbott, about Sylvia and about herself. Sylvia is from Society, while Mary has lived hard working farmer's life.

"I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman. I must have been the first "common" person she had ever known intimately. She had seen us afar off

A good quick read, and as most Upton Sinclair, ahead of its time. The story of naïveté, marriage, enlightenment, and the drama that comes with knowledge of good and evil. A story of inequality of the sexes.

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