The Jungle

"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

When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago's stockyards and the laborer's struggle against industry and "wage slavery." It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers' rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickens's Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingman's novel in American literature.

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Author: Upton Sinclair
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 04/02/1985
Series: Penguin American Library
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.12w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780140390315
Revised Edition

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 5988 / Jungle