by Upton Sinclair · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140390315
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«The Jungle» is Upton Sinclair's social protest novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (448 pages, in English).
The novel follows Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Chicago in search of the American dream and faces the inhuman conditions of the slaughterhouses, labor exploitation, and corruption. The novel's publication spurred reforms in the food industry.
Revised edition, published in 1985 within the Penguin American Library collection, with an introduction by Ronald S. Gottesman. The novel originally appeared in 1906.
For readers interested in classic social literature, the history of immigration in the United States, and the labor protest novel.
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
