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The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair, who was a popular American author and socialist. The main focus of this work is business corruption during the early 20th century. The Jungle depicts the harsh reality of poverty, the absence of social security, and the poor working conditions. The major problem outside of these issues is relentless hopelessness among the poor. During its day, this novel showed the American public the brutal truths related to an American economy focuses on profits and not focuses on taking care of working class Americans. The Jungle is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Upton Sinclair and also those who are interested in novels focousing on socialistic beliefs related to undesirable economic conditions.
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In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change.
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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."
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- PublisherFq Classics
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 159986567X
- ISBN 13 9781599865676
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages442
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