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THE JUNGLE - UPTON SINCLAIR KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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