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The Jungle (The Norton Library)

Upton Sinclair (Autor)

Kenneth W. Warren (Herausgeber)

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432 Seiten
2023
WW Norton & Co (Hersteller)
978-0-393-87158-6 (ISBN)
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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.

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).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.3.2023
Reihe/Serie The Norton Library
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10 0-393-87158-4 / 0393871584
ISBN-13 978-0-393-87158-6 / 9780393871586
Zustand Neuware
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