Books with title Jungle

A Novel that Changed America's Future “They use everything about the hog except the squeal.” ― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was a novel based on Sinclair's incognito research in a Chicago meatpacking plant. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This ebook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes Get your next Xist Classic title for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1A7cKKl Find all our our books for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1PooxLl Sign up for the Xist Publishing Newsletter here. Find more great titles on our website.

Pile into the jeep and join our safari friends for a rip-roaring adventure! This interactive, sturdy tabbed board book features four wild animal character shapes placed at the top of every page perfect for little hands to turn and explore. Kiddos will love learning all about the lions, elephants, monkeys, and giraffes as they trek through the wilderness in a big green safari jeep. A fun and entertaining read your kiddo will enjoy!Bright, bold artwork and tons of surprises to entertain and engage your toddlerSturdy board pages for little exploring hands to read over and over again Lively scenes allow for hours of fun reading and learningReading together improves school readiness and fosters early learning skillsA fun and entertaining read your kiddo will enjoy!

Two days have passed since Seth and his family returned from their calamitous adventure on Samarra Island. His mother wants to get as far away from the beach as possible, but Seth knows he can’t. He needs to begin the next leg of his adventure: to locate more Spirit Walkers and convince them to join the fight against the power-hungry Corbin Doyle. With the mischievous water spirit Kilo by his side, he’ll run away and face the unknown dangers in the jungle if he must.But something waits in the dense and dangerous wild, calling to Seth with every screech and scream. Rumors talk of native tribes that jealously guard their ancient secrets and animals that hide more than they share. Can Seth survive the jungle’s vast and untold terrors, or will the journey prove too much?

Upton Sinclair’s 1906 satire depicting the working conditions of life in the Chicago stockyards is one of the most controversial novels ever written. It depicts with vivid and brutal realism the experiences of a Slavic immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, and his wife, Ona.In a contemporary review author Jack London declared The Jungle to be, "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery." A film version of the novel was made in 1914 but has since become lost.

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First published serially in 1905, “The Jungle” is American journalist Upton Sinclair’s dramatization of the harsh working conditions for and exploitation of immigrant workers in industrial cities like Chicago during the early part of the 20th century. Sinclair spent seven weeks prior to publication working ‘in cognito’ in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards gathering information for the novel. The work is principally concerned with Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant trying to make ends meet in Chicago, and his family’s struggle for survival. Having come to America in want of a better life, Jurgis instead finds that a combination of poor working conditions, slave level wages, and mounting debt, offers little hope for it. While Sinclair, a noted socialist, showed the vast socio-economic divide between the haves and have-nots and the corrupt alignment of American politicians with the industrial-capitalist machine, the greater impact of the novel would be on reforming the health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry, which were brought to light by the work. Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” dramatized the plight of the working class in a way that no American novel before had and thus has established itself as one of the most important socialistic novels of all time. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices. Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair. Upton Sinclair’s vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago’s stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.Includes an Introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroeand an Afterword by Dr. Barry Sears