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The Jungle

Author: Upton Sinclair

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

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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.

The Jungle, a story so shocking that it  launched a government investigation, recreates this  startling chapter if our history in unflinching  detail. Always a vigorous champion on 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.

Additional information

Weight 0.3 kg
Dimensions 8.1 × 6.8 × 0.8 cm
ISBN

9780553212457

Author

Upton Sinclair

Published Date

1981

Publisher

Bantam Classics

Format

Paperback

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