The Jungle (100th Anniversary Edition)

The Jungle (100th Anniversary Edition)

Editorial Reviews
Review
?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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Book Description
The Jungle tells the story of Jurgis Rudus, a young immigrant who came to the New World to find a better life. Instead, he is confronted with the horrors of the Chicago slaughterhouses, barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, disease and despair.

The Jungle (100th Anniversary Edition)

The Jungle (100th Anniversary Edition),Upton Sinclair,Barry Sears,Signet Classics,0451528042,Chicago (Ill.),Classics,Fiction,Historical - General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Lithuanian Americans,Stockyards,Working class,Fiction / Classics

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