The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is part of the Barnes & Noble ClassicsÂ series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Upton Sinclairâ€™s muckraking masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicagoâ€™s infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians.
While Sinclairâ€™s main target was the industryâ€™s appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his novel exposed. As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which quickly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a work of fiction to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare. (At the time of The Jungleâ€™s publication in 1906, the only novel to have led to social change on a similar scale in America was Uncle Tomâ€™s Cabin.)
Today, The Jungle remains a relevant portrait of capitalism at its worst and an impassioned account of the human spirit facing nearly insurmountable challenges.
Maura Spiegel teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the coauthor of The Grim Reader and The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History. She coedits Literature and Medicine, a journal.
Country USA
Brand Barnes & Noble Classics
Manufacturer Sterling Publishing
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ReleaseDate 2003-04-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781593080082

Country	USA
Brand	Barnes & Noble Classics
Manufacturer	Sterling Publishing
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ReleaseDate	2003-04-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781593080082

The Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

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