2001, ISBN: 9780486419237

Penguin Classics, 1993-07-31. paperback. Good. 8x5x0. This is an ex-library book and may have some writings and highlightings within., Penguin Classics, 1993-07-31, 2.5, An ardent activ… Más…

Penguin Classics, 1993-07-31. paperback. Good. 8x5x0. This is an ex-library book and may have some writings and highlightings within., Penguin Classics, 1993-07-31, 2.5, An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle his devastating exposé of the meat-packing industry. A protest novel he privately published in 1906, the book was a shocking revelation of intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards. It quickly became a bestseller, arousing public sentiment and resulting in such federal legislation as the Pure Food and Drug Act.|The brutally grim story of a Slavic family who emigrates to America, 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.A powerful view of turn-of-the-century poverty, graft, and corruption, this fiercely realistic American classic is still required reading in many history and literature classes. It will continue to haunt readers long after they've finished the last page.American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act., Dover Publications, 2001-11, 6<

2001, ISBN: 0486419231

[EAN: 9780486419237], Neubuch, [PU: DOVER PUBN INC], LITERATURE - CLASSICS CRITICISM FICTION POLITICAL WORLD AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY, Klappentextrnrn1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intol… Más…

[EAN: 9780486419237], Neubuch, [PU: DOVER PUBN INC], LITERATURE - CLASSICS CRITICISM FICTION POLITICAL WORLD AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY, Klappentextrnrn1906 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 ., Books<