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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

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

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    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.

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    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

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    “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

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