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The Jungle

The Jungle

The Jungle Mass market paperback - 2015

by Upton Sinclair

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Penguin Publishing Group, 2015. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Jungle
  • Author Upton Sinclair
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publication date 2015
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0451472551I4N00
  • ISBN 9780451472557 / 0451472551
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 in (16.76 x 10.41 x 2.79 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Immigrants, Political fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.

Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair.

Upton Sinclair's vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago's stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.

Includes an Introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroe
and an Afterword by Dr. Barry Sears

About the author

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was born in Baltimore and began writing dime novels to pay his way through the College of the City of New York. While doing graduate work at Columbia University, he wrote six novels, including King Midas (1901), The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903), and Manassas (1904). His masterwork, The Jungle (1906), aided the passage of pure food laws and won him wide acclaim. Active throughout his life in socialist causes, he invested the money he made from The Jungle in a Utopian experiment, the Helicon Hall Colony in Englewood, New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he ran unsuccessfully for public office and waged an antipoverty campaign. Among his later works was Dragon's Teeth (1942), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
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