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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Good book until the very end. One gets to read Sinclair's rave for Socialism. Good for an argument against slaughter houses. (  ) Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |  Intense--the socialist stuff towards the end was a bit dense to read, but overall, very good. Lived up to my expectations, which is rare. ( )1  ascgrrl | Oct 19, 2009 | This book is good with regard to exposure of the evils of the meatpacking industry at the turn of the century. However, the author uses this for the purpose of making socialism the cure to all ills. The latter part of the book is socialistic dogma. (  ) Hermione2 | Oct 2, 2009 | Is this the most important novel to be written in the USA? By that I mean in terms of its importance outside the world of literature. It has to be near the top, doesn't it? That it brought about change in a form other than what Sinclair intended is but dressing to the situation. The only reason I'm not giving it a full five stars is that it deserved a better, more compelling ending. (  )1 KevinTexas | Sep 11, 2009 | A head-turning account of an immigrant life in and around the Chicago stockyards. 1 nico_macdonald | Aug 10, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553212451, Mass Market Paperback)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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