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Top authorsTheodore Dreiser Edna Ferber Balmer, Edwin; MacHarg, William Robert Herrick George Horace Lorimer Frank Norris Upton Sinclair James R. Adams Sherwood Anderson Edwin Balmer

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The novel opens in a bustling back‑room of a Chicago saloon, where a Lithuanian wedding is in full swing.

Erik Dorn

Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht’s Erik Dorn is a modernist novel set in Chicago that unfolds as a meditation on urban life and the…

The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Bannister Merwin

The novel opens on a bustling State Street in Chicago, where the practical‑minded lawyer Robert Orme watches…

Cover of Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

George Horace Lorimer

The work is an epistolary didactic novel that strings together a series of letters from John Graham, the…

Little Lost Sister

Virginia Brooks

Virginia Brooks’s Little Lost Sister is a socially charged novel set against the industrial backdrop of…