The Jungle: The 1906 Uncensored Version

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A Shocking Literary Classic by UPTON SINCLAIR

The Jungle by AMERICAN author UPTON SINCLAIR is a book of literary fiction first published in 1906 in the UNITED STATES.

An APALLING classic which was partly censored when it was originally published.

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‘Marija had only about twenty-five dollars left. Day after day she wandered about the yards begging a job, but this time without hope of finding it. Marija could do the work of an able-bodied man, when she was cheerful, but discouragement wore her out easily, and she would come home at night a pitiable object. She learned her lesson this time, poor creature; she learned it ten times over. All the family learned it along with her—that when you have once got a job in Packingtown, you hang on to it, come what will’.

Synopsis

The Jungle, written in 1906 by novelist and American journalist Upton Sinclair, depicts the lives of immigrants in the United States, particularly in Chicago and other industrialized areas. Readers were primarily concerned with the exposing of health breaches and filthy procedures in the early twentieth-century American meatpacking business, based on Sinclair's investigation for a socialist newspaper. Jurgis Rudkus is a young Lithuanian who immigrated to America in search of opportunity, fortune, and freedom. Soon, it becomes clear that the "packing town," the Chicago stockyards, is a bustling, filthy place where dreams perish in the jungle of human agony. Undercover, Upton documents the laborers' arduous labor, the inequities of "wage-slavery," and the perplexing jumble of urban life. Sinclair's work was so alarming that the government launched an investigation, which is chronicled in this engrossing novel that develops into a seminal piece of social change literature.

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Title Details

Original 1906 text

Book type: Literary fiction

Size 5.5 x 8.5 in

Matte Cover

White Paper

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