SYLVIA _By Upton Sinclair_ SYLVIA LOVE’S PILGRIMAGE PLAYS OF PROTEST THE FASTING CURE THE JUNGLE THE INDUSTRIAL REPUBLIC THE METROPOLIS THE MONEYCHANGERS SAMUEL THE SEEKER KING MIDAS PRINCE HAGEN THE JOURNAL OF ARTHUR STIRLING MANASSAS THE OVERMAN SYLVIA _A NOVEL_ ——BY—— UPTON SINCLAIR THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO Copyright, 1913, by THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO. Published, May 15, 1913 First Printing, April, 1913. Second Printing, May, 1913 Third Printing, May, 1913 TO THE PEOPLE AT HOME ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS BOOK I SYLVIA LOVES 11 BOOK II SYLVIA LINGERS 147 BOOK III SYLVIA LOSES 277 SYLVIA BOOK I _Sylvia Loves_ § 1 This is the story of Sylvia Castleman, of her love and her marriage. The story goes back to the days of her golden youth; but it has to be told by an old woman who had no youth at all, and who never dreamed of having a story to tell. It begins with scenes of luxury among the proudest aristocracy of the South; it is told by one who for the first thirty years of her life was a farmer’s wife in a lonely pioneer homestead in Manitoba, and who, but for the pictures and stories in magazines, would never have known that such a world as Sylvia Castleman’s existed.