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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 expos? of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking... Read Full Overview

For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated... Read Full Overview

"The Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery." --Jack London. Sinclair's masterpiece is an honest, sometimes brutal, tour de force that opened America's eyes to the struggles and horrors many immigrants endured.

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. However, most readers... Read Full Overview

A nice version with 34 illustrations and photographs that bring the working conditions to life.

The Jungle is a 1906 novel portraying the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and... Read Full Overview

About packing meat.

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the changing lives of immigrants traveling to the United States and landing in Chicago or other industrialized... Read Full Overview

This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a widely assigned teaching text. The novel is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations.

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It is the dawn of the twentieth century. Two young Lithuanian immigrants, Jurgis and Ona, hold their wedding celebration in Packingtown, the heart of Chicago's meatpacking district. According to custom, departing guests should give money to help pay for the party and start the... Read Full Overview

"Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them." --Edmund Wilson

Jurgis Rudkus and his family fight against all odds to survive in the urban jungle of Chicago, and find themselves unable to prevent their descent into abject poverty and despair. The Jungle is one of the most powerful novels ever published in the United States. This deeply moving... Read Full Overview