The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

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The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Sinclair famously said of the public reaction "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery." Sinclair was considered a muckraker, or journalist who exposed corruption in government and business. In 1904, Sinclair had spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the newspaper. He first published the novel in serial form in 1905 in the Socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason and it was published as a book by Doubleday in 1906.

Über Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), in einfachsten Verhältnissen aufgewachsen, war seit seinem Erstling „The Jungle“ als „mudraker“ verschrien: als Autor, der mit seinen Werken Dreck aufwühlt. Über „Oil!“ (1927) ließ der Autor stolz verlauten, dieser Roman „voller Abenteuer und sozialer Gegensätze“ sei sein am gründlichsten recherchiertes Werk überhaupt.


Verlag:

Sheba Blake Publishing

Veröffentlicht:

2017

Druckseiten:

ca. 442

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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