description: In 1924 Upton Sinclair wrote this novel. The Millennium takes place in the year 2000. As capitalism reaches its apex a 100-story Please Palace is built in the middle of Central Park in New York City for the pleasure of the ruling class. As the Palace has its grand opening an experiment with radiumite goes bad and it explodes killing everyone in the world except eleven people in the Palace. These eleven people are extremely wealthy and are incapable of living without luxury and servants. The group attempts to build a new capitalistic society but if fails. Three of the survivors leave the Palace, led by Billy Kingdom, and go to the Pocantico Hills above the Hudson River and create a utopian society known as the Co-operative Commonwealth. This novel is by far the most creative of Sinclair's writings as he envisions a truly near perfect society of people. It is an adventure de grandeur A Collector's Edition.
language: English
title: The Millennium
titlecomplete: The Millennium
characters: Billy Kingdom
genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 195
publisher: Synergy International of the Americas