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THE BOOK OF LIFE

 

Copyright, 1921, 1922
BY
UPTON SINCLAIR
All Rights Reserved.

 

To

Kate Crane Gartz

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

Volume I

Contents Volume I

Index Volume I

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Volume II

Contents Volume II

Index Volume II

INTRODUCTORY

The writer of this book has been in this world some forty-two years.That may not seem long to some, but it is long enough to have made manypainful mistakes, and to have learned much from them. Looking about him,he sees others making these same mistakes, suffering for lack of thatsame knowledge which he has so painfully acquired. This being the case,it seems a friendly act to offer his knowledge, minus the blunders andthe pain.

There come to the writer literally thousands of letters every year,asking him questions, some of them of the strangest. A man is dying ofcancer, and do I think it can be cured by a fast? A man is unable tomake his wife happy, and can I tell him what is the matter with women? Aman has invested his savings in mining stock, and can I tell him what todo about it? A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time forself-improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read? Manysuch questions every day make one aware of a vast mass of people,earnest, hungry for happiness, and groping as if in a fog. The thingsthey most need to know they are not taught in the schools, nor in thenewspapers they read, nor in the church they attend. Of these agencies,the first is not entirely competent, the second is not entirely honest,and the third is not entirely up to date. Nor is there anywhere a bookin which the effort has been made to give to everyday human beings theeveryday information they need for the successful living of their lives.

For the present book the following claims may be made. First, it is amodern book; its writer watches hour by hour the new achievemen

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