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1) The jungle
Author
Language
English
Description
1906 best-seller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page. Published privately by Sinclair in 1906 after commercial...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 526 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation. This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a widely assigned...
3) The jungle
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century"--
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