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Can I read The Jungle on EtoBox?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Jungle about?
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day. Enriched eBook Features Editor Jonathan Beecher Field provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic: Chronology Filmography (and the 1914 The Jungle Film Poster) Early Twentieth-Century Reviews of The Jungle Suggestions for Further Reading The Jungle and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 The...
Who reads The Jungle?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Upton Sinclair
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Classics
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (110 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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