Between Two Worlds, Upton Sinclair
Between Two Worlds, Upton Sinclair
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Between Two Worlds

Author: Upton Sinclair

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 31 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2022

Synopsis

The second in the Pulitzer Prize–winning historical fiction series takes Lanny Budd through the 1920s, from the rise of fascism to the crash on Wall Street.The First World War brought an abrupt end to Lanny Budd’s idyllic youth. Now, in the wake of the Treaty of Versailles, he barely recognizes the beloved Europe of his boyhood.At the start of his career as an international art dealer, Lanny travels to Italy and witnesses the brutal charisma of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Meanwhile, in Germany, the failed Beer Hall Putsch led by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party strikes an ominous note foreshadowing the devastation to come. After two star-crossed love affairs, Lanny marries a wealthy heiress and chooses the United States with its booming economy as their home. But neither he nor those he loves can predict the financial disaster that will bring a decade of prosperity to an abrupt close.Between Two Worlds brings one of the most fascinating and tumultuous decades of the twentieth century to thrilling life. A spellbinding mix of history, adventure, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of Upton Sinclair’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.

About Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a journalist, a prominent social and political activist, and the author of over one hundred books, including the novel Dragon’s Teeth, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. He is perhaps best known for The Jungle, the dramatic exposé of the Chicago meat-packing industry that prompted the investigation by Theodore Roosevelt that culminated in the pure-food legislation of 1906.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine on August 01, 2020

Wonderful book, and the second in this long forgotten and unavailable series. This book covers the years of 1919 until 1929 and culminates with the Wall Street crash. Very good book in terms of the historical events that our hero, Lanny Budd, gets to witness. My biggest problem with the book is that......more

Goodreads review by Lahierbaroja on May 10, 2016

Un libro para paladear y disfrutar, que nos cuenta lo grande y lo pequeño de una época convulsa. La política, la diplomacia, los problemas pero también las fiestas, las modas, los amores. Todo eso y mucho más en un ESPECTACULAR libro para leer despacio y con atención. [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on July 17, 2023

I'm sorry I waited two years to get to this second installment of the series. I must promise myself to get to the rest without putting so much time between them. They are long, but so what? Do I need to be in a rush to get to the end of a novel? Lanny Budd is a witness to history. Unrealistically, he......more

Goodreads review by Beverly on February 02, 2017

History Repeats Itself I had not read the first book in the series, but I was able to catch up fairly easily. This is a story of the 1920's seen through the eyes of Lanny Budd, who is a young man of means living in a world of European privilege. His family is not a conventional one and his life exper......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on May 27, 2016

This 2nd volume in Upton Sinclair’s epic 11 volume saga following the fortunes of Lanny Budd covers the years from the Treaty of Versailles to the stock market crash of 1929, and is a wide-ranging and comprehensive depiction of a time and place. With its mix of fact and fiction (but with the fiction......more

Quotes

“Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human.” Time, praise for the series

“These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history…Sinclair’s historical acumen and his calculations about powerful institutions—government, press, corporations, oil cartels and lobbyists—remain remarkably shrewd and often prescient.” New York Times, praise for the series

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