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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

The Jungle is one of the most famous muckraking novels in modern history. Set in Chicago at the dawn of the 20th century, it tells the story of an immigrant Lithuanian family trying to make it in a new world both cruel and full of opportunity. Their struggles are in part a vehicle... 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.

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... 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

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

"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

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

A pivotal book that changed life in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is one of the great radical novels of the twentieth century. Graphic, provocative, and uniquely impactful, the book traces the life of an immigrant family in pursuit of the American Dream in Chicago's... Read Full Overview

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a harrowing tale that follows the life of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, and his family as they navigate the brutal realities of the American Dream in the meatpacking district of Chicago. The novel starkly illustrates the exploitation... Read Full Overview

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of... Read Full Overview

"...and the wild beast rose up within him and screamed, as it had screamed in the Jungle from the dawn of time." 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... 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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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Doubleday, Page and Company edition of The Jungle, published in 1906. Revised and expanded introduction, headnotes, and explanatory annotations by Clare Virginia Eby. Thematically organized contexts and criticism with more than twenty... Read Full Overview