{"product_id":"the-jungle-9780451472557","title":"The Jungle","description":"\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Upton 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes an Introduction by Alicia Mischa Renfroe\u003cbr\u003eand an Afterword by Dr. Barry Sears\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair\u003c\/b\u003e (1878-1968) was born in Baltimore and began writing dime novels to pay his way through the College of the City of New York. While doing graduate work at Columbia University, he wrote six novels, including \u003ci\u003eKing Midas\u003c\/i\u003e (1901), \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Arthur Stirling \u003c\/i\u003e(1903), and \u003ci\u003eManassas\u003c\/i\u003e (1904). His masterwork, \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle \u003c\/i\u003e(1906), aided the passage of pure food laws and won him wide acclaim. Active throughout his life in socialist causes, he invested the money he made from \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e in a Utopian experiment, the Helicon Hall Colony in Englewood, New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he ran unsuccessfully for public office and waged an antipoverty campaign. Among his later works was \u003ci\u003eDragon's Teeth \u003c\/i\u003e(1942), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Signet Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50599998390546,"sku":"9780451472557","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1317058a-e186-4612-b30f-9c7654f43c9d.jpg?v=1732207988","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-jungle-9780451472557","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}