THE JUNGLE
Paperback
Connect with a representative to create a custom curriculum for your district.
Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life who instead faces an epic struggle for survival.
His story of factory life in Chicago in the early 20th century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair. Sinclair’s vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago’s stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure-food laws. More than a hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.
This title is part of the series: COMMON CORE LIBRARY
| Pages | 404 |
|---|---|
| Grade | 9 and up |