| The Jungle Centennial Edition Contributor(s): Sinclair, Upton (Author), Jacobs, Jane (Introduction by), Arthur, Anthony (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0812976231 ISBN-13: 9780812976236 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2006 Annotation: Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. Readers 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Urban |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007279794 |
| Series: Modern Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.26" W x 8" (0.64 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Locality - Chicago, Illinois |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 5988 Reading Level: 8.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 22.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |