The Jungle
Novel
By: Upton Sinclair
Date: 1906
Source: Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906. Reprinted in New York: Penguin, 1990, 39–44. Available online at http://www.roggeman.com/jungle (accessed March 15, 2003).
About the Author: Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied at the City College of New York and Columbia University. While at Columbia, he wrote six novels. Of these, The Jungle (1906) won him celebrity. Not content as a novelist, he unsuccessfully ran four times for political office in California. His closest bid came in 1934 when he narrowly lost the gubernatorial race.
Introduction
Like the rest of the U.S. economy, the meatpacking industry grew rapidly during the nineteenth century. Its success stemmed from the expansion of hog raising from...
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