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Download or read book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Annotated Edition written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle was published in 1906, three years after Upton Sinclair's failed first novel, and it became an immediate success. Sinclair based the novel on the American meatpacking industry, an industry that had received scrutiny in the decade before the novel's publication by journalists and social critics. For years before Sinclair began his work, these groups of writers and journalists had documented the abuses of the industry and the plight of immigrant workers who suffered under terrible working conditions.
Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century. Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today. Not many works of literature can boast that their publication brought about actual social and labor change, but that's just what The Jungle did, as it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In today's society, where labor and safety of the food we eat remain key concerns for all, Sinclair's shocking story still resonates. Bringing new life and energy to this classic work, adapter and illustrator Kristina Gehrmann takes Sinclair's prose and transforms it through pen and ink, allowing you to discover (or rediscover) this book and see it from a whole new perspective.
Book Synopsis The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Annotated) by : Upton Sinclair
Download or read book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Annotated) written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upton Sinclair authored the Jungle in 1906 as a method to promote socialism in the United States. Nevertheless, a lot of readers were far more enthusiastic about a number of sections that covered health problems and sanitary practices in the American Meat packing industry in the early 20th century - something which led to reforms like the meat Inspection Act. Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations: *Biographical Information: Sinclair also involved in extreme politics in Los Angeles in that time. Sinclair, for instance, dealt with a gathering at the San Pedro Maritime Strike in a area today called Liberty Hill in 1923 to protect Industrial Workers of the World's rights to free speech.
Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968).Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Perhaps his main goal in exposing the meat industry and working conditions was to advance Socialism in the United States. However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Sinclair famously said of the public reaction "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery.
Book Synopsis Work and Community in the Jungle by : James R. Barrett
Download or read book Work and Community in the Jungle written by James R. Barrett and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at unionization efforts by Chicago's packinghouse workers and explores the process of class formation in early twentieth-century industrial America.
Book Synopsis The Jungle Annotated Wow Books by : Upton Sinclair
Download or read book The Jungle Annotated Wow Books written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus and his family, Lithuanian immigrants who come to America to paintings inside the meatpacking flowers of Chicago. Their story is a tale of complication. They face good sized difficulties: harsh and dangerous working situations, poverty and starvation, unjust businessmen who take their money, and corrupt politicians who create legal guidelines that permit all of this to appear. The story follows the hardships of Jurgis and his own family and the transformation that Jurgis undergoes while he accepts the new political and economic revolution of socialism.The novel begins at the marriage of Jurgis and Ona Rudkus. Marija Berczynskas, a strong and commanding woman, directs the marriage and Tamoszius Kuszleika offers track along with his violin. Although Tamoszius's "notes are by no means true, and his fiddle buzzes at the low ones and squeaks and scratches at the excessive," he is the celebrity of the wedding. Everyone in the slums of Packingtown is invited, and they are presupposed to pay tribute to the family. Many do not, however, and this leaves Jurgis and Ona deeply in debt on the first day of their marriage.Jurgis and Ona got here from the geographical region of Lithuania. Because Jurgis and Ona had been now not allowed to marry in Lithuania and due to the fact Ona's father dies, leaving them with little money, Jurgis makes a decision to move his and Ona's own family to America. Jonas, Jurgis's brother, tells them of a chum who made a fortune in Chicago and they determine to head there. Upon arriving in America, however, they discover that whilst the wages are better, so are the expenses. Several retailers and thieves scam them while they arrive, and shortly much of their cash is long gone.
Download or read book Holes written by Louis Sachar and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves! Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment —and redemption. Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!
Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-04-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Wilson When 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book King Coal written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner"--OCLC.
Download or read book Oil! written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First edition of Sinclair's savage satire, loosely based on the life and career of Edward L. Doheny, and the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration. Although Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle deals with Chicago's meatpacking industry, he moved west to Pasadena in 1916 and began writing novels set in California, the best of which was Oil!, the story of the education of Bunny Ross, son of wildcat oil man Joe Ross after oil is discovered outside Los Angeles. The novel was the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. In California Classics, Lawrence Clark Powell called Oil! "Sinclair's most sustained and best writing."
Book Synopsis The Jungle by Upton Sinclair the Annotated Classic Edition (Harsh Conditions of Immigrants in US) by : Upton Sinclair
Download or read book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair the Annotated Classic Edition (Harsh Conditions of Immigrants in US) written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important - and moving -- works in the literature of social change.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of the American Novel by : Leonard Cassuto
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the American Novel written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 1271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.
Book Synopsis Those Across the River by : Christopher Buehlman
Download or read book Those Across the River written by Christopher Buehlman and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man must confront a terrifying evil in this captivating horror novel that's "as much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz."* Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate--the Savoyard Plantation--and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of the Savoyard Plantation still stand. Where a long-smoldering debt of blood has never been forgotten. Where it has been waiting for Frank Nichols....
Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and socialist journalist Upton Sinclair. It was written about the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones the poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the "have-nots," which is contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption on the part of the "haves." The sad state of turn-of-the-century labor is placed front and center for the American public to see, suggesting that something needed to be changed to get rid of American "wage slavery." The novel is also an important example of the "muckraking" tradition begun by journalists such as Jacob Riis. Sinclair wanted to persuade his readers that the mainstream American political parties offered little means for progressive change. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.
Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. Enriched eBook Features Editor Jonathan Beecher Field provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic: * Chronology * Filmography (and the 1914 The Jungle Film Poster) * Early Twentieth-Century Reviews of The Jungle * Suggestions for Further Reading * The Jungle and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 * The Jungle Book Cover Designs * Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 * Immigrants and the Meatpacking Industry, Then and Now * Images of the Chicago Stockyards * Images of Cuts of Beef and Pork * Enriched eBook Notes The enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.
