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The Jungle (The Norton Library) (First Edition) (The Norton Library) Kindle Edition

by Upton Sinclair (Author), Kenneth W. Warren (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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An unsparing exposé of the exploitative practices of Chicago’s meatpacking industry at the turn of the twentieth century, Upton Sinclair’s account of the downtrodden immigrant workers in The Jungle (1906) “aimed at the public’s heart and by accident…hit it in the stomach.” Sinclair’s visceral description of the fetid and filthy stockyards sparked widespread outrage and led to the passage of the nation’s first consumer protection laws, cementing The Jungle as one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.
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Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland, the only child of a poor liquor salesman and his wife. He attended both the College of the City of New York and Columbia University. In 1906, Sinclair published The Jungle, a muckraking exposé of Chicago’s meatpacking district. An immediate bestseller, it prompted widespread public outrage and led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906. An ardent socialist and political activist, Sinclair ran for office several times. His large body of work includes the novels King Coal (1917), The Brass Check (1919), and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Dragon’s Teeth (1942). He died on November 25, 1968, in Bound Brook, New Jersey.

Kenneth W. Warren is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism?(1993), So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism?(2003), and What Was African American Literature??(2011). --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (July 1, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth 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 conditions in the U.S. meat packing 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. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." He is remembered for writing the famous line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

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