The Jungle Paperback - 2001
by Upton Sinclair
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- Title The Jungle
- Author Upton Sinclair
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Unabridged
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Incorporated, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0486419231I4N10
- ISBN 9780486419237 / 0486419231
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
- Age range 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 1170
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Catalog Heading: Classics
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Immigrants, Political fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001032352
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 3
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An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle his devastating expose of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards. It quickly became a bestseller, arousing public sentiment and resulting in such federal legislation as the Pure Food and Drug Act.-The brutally grim story of a Slavic family who emigrates to America, The Jungle tells of their rapid and inexorable descent into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and social and economic despair. Vulnerable and isolated, the family of Jurgis Rudkus struggles unsuccessfully to survive in an urban jungle.
A powerful view of turn-of-the-century poverty, graft, and corruption, this fiercely realistic American classic is still required reading in many history and literature classes. It will continue to haunt readers long after they've finished the last page."
