Jungle

Name: Jungle
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780553212457

ISBN-10: 0553212451

ISBN-13: 9780553212457

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Upton Sinclair, Morris Dickstein

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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…

Book details

List price: $5.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/1/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 4.21" wide x 6.81" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English