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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451472551
ISBN-139780451472557
eBay Product ID (ePID)203536118
Product Key Features
Book TitleJungle
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicClassics, Literary, Political
GenreFiction
AuthorUpton Sinclair
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight7.4 Oz
Item Length6.8 in
Item Width4.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair's] novels." - George Bernard Shaw, "When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair's] novels."--George Bernard Shaw
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Afterword bySears, Barry
Dewey Decimal813.52
SynopsisUpton 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