Books with title Jungle

Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus has invested every last hope in achieving a prosperous new start in a new country. But the only job open to him—in the appalling stockyards of Packingtown, Chicago—will become a brutal, dispiriting, and dangerous challenge to his pride, his family, his life, and his faith in the American Dream.A scathing condemnation of capitalism, corporate corruption, and the exploitation of the working class, The Jungle was a sensation when first published. It stands as one the greatest and most influential proletarian novels ever written.AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.Revised edition: Previously published as The Jungle , this edition of The Jungle (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

•This e-book publication is unique which includes detailed Biography. •A new table of contents has been included by a publisher. •This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors. 1906 bestseller 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.

This edition includes 10 illustrations. While many novels have a profound effect on the way people think, few have the potency to inspire action or change among the very uppermost class of lawmakers and politicians, yet that is what Upton Sinclair’s harrowing novel The Jungle achieved after its 1906 publication. As much a stomach-churning expose of the meat packing industry as a frank look into the disparity of wealth distribution and the corruption of individuals in power during the early 20th century, upon reading The Jungle President Theodore Roosevelt personally moved to create meat inspection legislation in the United States, the prototype for the FDA.

• The book includes 10 unique illustrations that are relevant to its content.The Jungle a novel written by the American journalist Upton Sinclair in 1906. Following along with a family of Slavic emigrates Sinclair shows the brutality that they are exposed to as they work in the Chicago stockyards. Depicting the absence of social programs, corruption of power and hopelessness of the working class.

“Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”The Jungle, 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. The Jungle tells of their rapid and inexorable descent into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and social and economic despair. Vulnerable and isolated, the family of Jurgis Rudkus struggles — unsuccessfully — to survive in an urban jungle.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 it has since become lost.