THE JUNGLE
by SINCLAIR, Upton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Mild rubbing to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with mild sunning
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Sinclair's powerful exposure of the Chicago meat-packing industry is still a staple on the menus of many high school reading lists. His account of the social and human abuses of the yards, where packers used "everything about the hog except the squeal," led to major reforms in the industry and, along with UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, is one of the few American novels to have a lasting impact on the way we live our lives. Indeed, when this book was published Jack London said, "What Uncle Tom's Cabin did for black slaves, The Jungle has a large chance to do for the white slaves of today." President Theodore Roosevelt was so shocked by what he read that he made sure a clean meat act, the Pure Food and Drug Bill, was signed into law, popularizing at the time the rather obscure term "muckraker." Later in life, Sinclair said of his masterpiece: "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
Synopsis
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. This novel was intended to highlight the poverty and misery of the immigrant working class, but ultimately became more known as an expose of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016538
- Title
- THE JUNGLE
- Author
- SINCLAIR, Upton
- Illustrator
- Fletcher Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Mild rubbing to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with mild sunning
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Illustrated Edition
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Signed, Illustrated Books, Fine Press, Limited Editions Club, High Spot, Social Protest, Upton Sinclair, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions
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