World’s End

novel by Sinclair

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Upton Sinclair's novel World's End (1940) is the first in his Lanny Budd series. This series consists of 11 novels that follow an antifascist protagonist through the events surrounding World War II. Sinclair was a prolific American writer known for his advocacy of socialism, health, temperance, free speech, and worker rights. His most famous work, The Jungle (1906), exposed the harsh conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry and led to the passage of federal food-inspection laws. Sinclair's writing often served as a form of social commentary and activism.12

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Upton Sinclair
…contemporary historical novels, beginning with World’s End (1940), that were constructed around an antifascist hero who witnesses all the events surrounding World War II. For Dragon’s Teeth (1942), the third novel in the series, about the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s, Sinclair won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…
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…contemporary historical novels, beginning with World’s End (1940), that were constructed around an antifascist hero who witnesses all the events surrounding World War II. For Dragon’s Teeth (1942), the third novel in the series, about the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s, Sinclair won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…
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