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Upton sinclair s the jungle consists of 31 parts for ease of reading. Born into an impoverished family in baltimore, maryland, sinclair entered city college of new york five days before his fourteenth birthday. The jungle by upton sinclair download free kindle epub. A searing novel of social realism, upton sinclair s the jungle follows the fortunes of jurgis rudkus, an immigrant who finds in the stockyards of turnofthecentury chicago a ruthless system that degrades and impoverishes him, and an industry whose filthy practices contaminate the meat it processes. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Sinclair was commissioned by the appeal to reason, a socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in chicago. This list offers an overview of books that will keep students engaged with similar themes and genres. Instead of finding the american dream, rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soulcrushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless conmen, and corrupt politicians. Global grey free pdf, epub, kindle ebook pages pdf. This investigation had inspired sinclair to write the novel, but his efforts to publish the series as a book met with resistance.
Upton sinclair, master of the muckraking novel, here explores the workingmans lot at the turn of the century. It was written about the corruption of the american meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. Upton sinclairs the jungle is a famous work exposing an underside of human civilization. Last week, around 30,000 people downloaded books from my site 8 people gave donations. September 20, 1878 november 25, 1968 was an american author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres.
Upton sinclair originally crafted as a scathing expose of the chicago meatpacking industry of the early twentieth century, the jungle by american journalist and author, upton sinclair, was based on his investigative work into the dark underbelly of capitalism in the country. Upton sinclairs muckraking masterpiece centers on jurgis rudkus, a lithuanian immigrant working in chicagos infamous packingtown. The jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in. Download the jungle upton sinclair pdf genial ebooks.
The jungle is a wellinformed critique on the social, political, and economic issues of the food industry and the rapidly developing capitalist society of the earl 20th century. Its on the same plane as uncle toms cabin and from what i read afterwards, was far more instrumental in bringing direct change to one of the largest industries in america based in chicago the stockyards where the packing of meat. Although when it was first published the jungle created an outcry for better regulation of meat production, in fact the book is. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the united states. Gary younge on upton sinclairs 1906 novel the jungle. Upton sinclairs the jungle consists of 31 parts for ease of reading. Though born into a poor but socially privileged family of southern aristocrats from maryland, sinclair left school early to start working in a newspaper. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, upton sinclair is perhaps best known today for the jungle his devastating expose of the meatpacking industry.
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