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Can I read The jungle on EtoBox?
The jungle by Upton Sinclair; with an afterword by Robert B. Downs is a work of fiction 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.
Who reads The jungle?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Upton Sinclair; with an afterword by Robert B. Downs
- Publisher
- New York: New American Library
- Published
- 1980
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780451515049
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Children'S
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (23 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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