The Millenium: A Comedy of the Year 2000

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Introduction by Carl Jensen This facinating novel by one of America's best loved writers is set in New York in the year 2000 when capitalism finds its zenith with the building of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering half-mile structure in the middle of Central Park. At the opening an experiment goes badly wrong and an explosion kills everyone in the world save eleven of the people at The Pleasure Palace. They struggle to rebuild their lives by creating a new capitalistic society but soon find that to survive they will have to find a new way of life.

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One of the greatest novelists in the world, the Zola of America.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the sharpest observers of our time.Albert Einstein

When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime, I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to your novels.George Bernard Shaw (to Sinclair)

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UPTON SINCLAIR was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1878, and died near Bound Brook, New Jersey, on September 20, 1968. His novel The Jungle (1906) led to the clean up of nation's meat supply industry, and to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration; another, The Brass Check, paved the way for the Newspaper Guild; Boston influenced America's perception of the Saccho-Vanzetti case; OIL! opened America's eyes to avaricious corporate oil swindlers; Dragon's Teeth brought him the Pulitzer Prize for Literature; and his eleven-volume Lanny Budd series became an internationally popular history of the world from 1911 to 1950. Sinclair was a true Renaissance man and a fearless crusader for social justice.