The Jungle
$17.43
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1982
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553212457 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553212451 |
| Author: | Upton Sinclair, Morris Dickstein |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1982 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 173mm x 106mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Bantam Classics |
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“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
About The Author
Upton Sinclair
Jane Jacobs is one of the most original economic and sociological thinkers of our day. Her books include the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities and, most recently, The Nature of Economies. She lives in Toronto.
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