The Jungle
Resumo
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair is a novel published in 1906. It follows Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus and his family as they pursue the American Dream in Chicago's meatpacking district. What begins as hopeful optimism quickly descends into a brutal struggle against exploitation, corruption, and poverty. Working in dangerous conditions for meager wages, the family faces mounting tragedies and moral tests. Sinclair's exposé of unsanitary practices in the meat industry sparked public outrage and led to landmark food safety legislation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Public domain in the USA.
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Assuntos (14)
- Category: Novels
- Category: American Literature
- Banned Books from Anne Haight's list
- Contemporary Reviews
- Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923
- PS
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Working class -- Fiction
- Banned Books List from the American Library Association
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- Meat industry and trade -- Fiction
- Lithuanian Americans -- Fiction
- Stockyards -- Fiction