The Jungle (AmazonClassics Edition) - Tapa blanda

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.

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Revised edition: Previously published as The Jungle , this edition of The Jungle (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, to an impoverished family, Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a journalist, editor, political activist, politician, and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist. At the age of fourteen he enrolled at the City College of New York where, to pay for his education, he began his writing career. It was also during his college years that Sinclair discovered, and embraced, the philosophy that would inform his work, his life, and his political career as a formidable and progressive member of the Democratic Party during the Great Depression. But it was for his novel The Jungle—an unsparing indictment of the meatpacking industry—that Sinclair gained national prominence as one of the most influential muckrakers of the twentieth century.