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JUNGLE Pb - 1985

by SINCLAIR,U

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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.

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  • Title JUNGLE
  • Author SINCLAIR,U
  • Binding pb
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition New
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1985-04-02
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780140390315
  • ISBN 9780140390315 / 0140390316
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.12 x 0.81 in (19.56 x 13.00 x 2.06 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1170
  • Library of Congress subjects Immigrants, Political fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84026393
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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 appalling 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. Penguin Enriched eBook Classics Features:• How to Navigate Guide• Upton Sinclair Chronology• Filmography and 1914 The Jungle Film Poster• Early Twentieth-Century Reviews of The Jungle• Upton Sinclair's Letter to the Editor of The New York Times• Suggested Further Reading• The Jungle and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906• The Jungle Book Cover Designs• Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906• Immigrants and the Meatpacking Industry, Then and Now• Images of the Chicago Stockyards• Images of Cuts of Beef and Pork• Enriched eBook Notes

From the publisher

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was born in Baltimore. At age fifteen, he began writing a series of dime novels in order to pay for his education at the City College of New York. He was later accepted to do graduate work at Columbia, and while there he published a number of novels, including The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903) and Manassas (1904). Sinclair’s breakthrough came in 1906 with the publication of The Jungle, a scathing indictment of the Chicago meat-packing industry. His later works include World’s End (1940), Dragon’s Teeth (1942), which won him a Pulitzer Prize, O Shepherd, Speak! (1949) and Another Pamela (1950).
Ronald Gottesman was born in Boston and earned degrees from the University of Massachusetts and from Colgate and Indiana universities. He has taught literature, film studies, and humanities courses at Northwestern, Indiana, and Rutgers universities, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Southern California, where for nine years he directed the Center for the Humanities. Founding editor of the Quarterly Review of Film Studies and Humanities in Society, Professor Gottesman is editor and author of many articles and books on literature and film, including three on Upton Sinclair. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in psychoanalysis.

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  • Newsweek, 09/03/2007, Page 14

About the author

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was born in Baltimore. At age fifteen, he began writing a series of dime novels in order to pay for his education at the City College of New York. He was later accepted to do graduate work at Columbia, and while there he published a number of novels, including The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903) and Manassas (1904). Sinclair's breakthrough came in 1906 with the publication of The Jungle, a scathing indictment of the Chicago meat-packing industry. His later works include World's End (1940), Dragon's Teeth (1942), which won him a Pulitzer Prize, O Shepherd, Speak! (1949) and Another Pamela (1950).

Ronald Gottesman was born in Boston and earned degrees from the University of Massachusetts and from Colgate and Indiana universities. He has taught literature, film studies, and humanities courses at Northwestern, Indiana, and Rutgers universities, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Southern California, where for nine years he directed the Center for the Humanities. Founding editor of the Quarterly Review of Film Studies and Humanities in Society, Professor Gottesman was editor and author of many articles and books on literature and film, including three on Upton Sinclair.

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