The Jungle
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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. 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 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.
The Jungle
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- ISBN
- 9780140390315
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Upton Sinclair
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published Date
- April 2, 1985
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 448
- Physical Info
- 0.81 in H x 7.7 in L x 5.12 in W (0.69 lb)