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The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
- Upton Sinclair
- 1906
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6 days ago · The most famous, influential, and enduring of the muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of Chicago stockyards and highlighted dangerous labour practices, the cruel treatment of slaughterhouse animals, unsanitary food-processing conditions, and the resultant appalling food quality.
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- Upton Sinclair
- 1906
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is famous for disgusting America with its tales of meat packing workers falling into vats and rendered into lard, and all the things that went into sausages and tinned beef.
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Vulnerable and isolated, the family of Jurgis Rudkus struggles — unsuccessfully — to survive in an urban jungle. A powerful view of turn-of-the-century poverty, graft, and...
The Jungle is a novel by Upton Sinclair that depicts the harsh and corrupt conditions of the meatpacking industry in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century. The novel follows the struggles of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who tries to make a better life in America but ends up in poverty, crime, and despair.
