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Book Synopsis“Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.” —Edmund WilsonWhen it was first published in 1906,
The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago’s stockyards and the laborer’s struggle against industry and “wage slavery.” It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers’ rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickens’s
Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingman’s novel in American literature.
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Trade Review“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair’s] novels.” —
George Bernard ShawTable of ContentsThe JungleIntroduction by Ronald Gottesman
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
The Jungle
