Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century. The dismal living and working conditions and sense of hopelessness prevalent among the impoverished workers is compared to the corruption of the rich. Upton aimed to make such "wage slavery" issues center-stage in the minds of the American public. Despite already being serialized, it was rejected as a novel five times before being published in 1906, when it quickly became a bestseller..
Publication
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2001.
ISBN
0486419231 / 9780486419237
Pages
vii; 290
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1906