Get personalized recommendations and earn points toward a free book!
Before you go...
Check Out These
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
See the List
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Read An Excerpt
Read An Excerpt

The Jungle

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Upton Sinclair
Illustrated by Charles Burns
Introduction by Eric Schlosser

By Upton Sinclair
Illustrated by Charles Burns
Introduction by Eric Schlosser

By Upton Sinclair
Introduction by Ronald Gottesman

By Upton Sinclair
Introduction by Ronald Gottesman

By Upton Sinclair
Foreword by Eric Schlosser
Introduction by Ronald Gottesman

By Upton Sinclair
Foreword by Eric Schlosser
Introduction by Ronald Gottesman

Best Seller

Part of Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Paperback $18.00

Mar 28, 2006 | 432 Pages

Paperback $14.00

Apr 02, 1985 | 448 Pages

Ebook $9.99

Apr 02, 1985 | 448 Pages

All Formats
+
    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    Paperback
    Mar 28, 2006 | 432 Pages
    See All Formats (2) +

    Paperback (2)
    –

    • Paperback $18.00

      Mar 28, 2006 | 432 Pages

    • Paperback $14.00

      Apr 02, 1985 | 448 Pages

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook $9.99

      Apr 02, 1985 | 448 Pages

    Buy the Ebook:

    About The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About 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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Also in Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

    Tao Te Ching
    Anne of Green Gables

    Also by Upton Sinclair

    The Jungle (Graphic Novel)
    The Jungle
    Oil!
    The Jungle
    See all books by Upton Sinclair

    Also by Upton Sinclair

    The Jungle (Graphic Novel)
    The Jungle
    Oil!
    The Jungle
    See all books by Upton Sinclair

    Also by Upton Sinclair

    The Jungle (Graphic Novel)
    The Jungle
    Oil!
    The Jungle
    See all books by Upton Sinclair

    About Upton Sinclair

    “You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it,” wrote Upton Sinclair in 1962. He had spent his life doing just that through his writings and political activism. Born September 20, 1878, in… More about Upton Sinclair

    About Upton Sinclair

    “You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it,” wrote Upton Sinclair in 1962. He had spent his life doing just that through his writings and political activism. Born September 20, 1878, in… More about Upton Sinclair

    About Upton Sinclair

    “You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it,” wrote Upton Sinclair in 1962. He had spent his life doing just that through his writings and political activism. Born September 20, 1878, in… More about Upton Sinclair

    Product Details

    Category: Nonfiction Classics | 19th Century U.S. History | Politics

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Mar 28, 2006 | 432 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143039587

    Category: Nonfiction Classics | 19th Century U.S. History | Politics

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Apr 02, 1985 | 448 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140390315

    Category: Nonfiction Classics | 19th Century U.S. History | Politics

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Apr 02, 1985 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780525505129

    People Who Read The Jungle Also Read

    ‹ ›
    American Rose
    The Social Animal
    The Predictioneer's Game
    We Are Doomed
    Beyond Fundamentalism
    Grand New Party
    The Second Plane
    Condoleezza Rice: An American Life
    Hold Everything Dear
    Promises to Keep
    (Not That You Asked)
    Deer Hunting with Jesus
    Free Ride
    The Enemy At Home
    A Woman in Charge
    Saving Graces
    The Promise of Politics
    Iran Awakening
    The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
    Sharon and My Mother-in-Law
    Intelligent Thought
    Too Close For Comfort
    The Progress Paradox
    The Death of Right and Wrong
    Bush Versus the Environment
    Fixed Ideas
    The Old Curiosity Shop
    Demons
    Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
    A Prayer for the City
    Stealing Jesus
    Ruth
    One More River to Cross
    Killing the White Man's Indian
    Time Present, Time Past
    Life's Dominion
    After Henry
    The Hot House
    In the Belly of the Beast
    Women, Culture & Politics
    Reveille for Radicals
    Clarissa
    Desert Solitaire
    The Warden
    Lady Susan; The Watsons; Sanditon

    Inspired by Your Browsing History

    Praise

    “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

    Table Of Contents

    The JungleIntroduction by Ronald Gottesman
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    A Note on the Text

    The Jungle

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    Download our Spring Fiction Sampler Now
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read
    TASTE img

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook

    LitFlash

    The eBooks you want at the lowest prices

    Read it Forward

    Read it first. Pass it on!