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The Jungle by Upton Beall Sinclair (1990, Paperback) 
The Jungle by Upton Beall Sinclair (1990, Paperback)

 
The Jungle by Upton Beall Sinclair (1990, Paperback)

Author: Upton Beall Sinclair
Publisher: Bantam Classic & Loveswept
Publication Date: 1990-08-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0553212451
ISBN-13: 9780553212457
Product ID: EPID51762
Description: Upton Sinclair's classic work of muckraking fiction tells the unsavory truth about Chicago's stockyards at the turn of the 20th century.
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Synopsis
Upton Sinclair's classic work of muckraking fiction tells the unsavory truth about Chicago's stockyards at the turn of the 20th century.

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Publication Date:1990-08-01

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Height:7.3 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:5.6 oz

Publisher's Note
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "Packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the" muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life.
THE JUNGLE, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter of our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion of political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important--and moving--works in the literature of social change.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.

Industry Reviews
"I would be reading the early muckrakers' books: Ida Tarbell on Standard Oil, or Upton Sinclair on the meat plants in Chicago. I would be quite young reading these books -- ten, eleven, twelve, and trembling with excitement. I remember how exciting it was just to read the books."
Ralph Nader

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