Cover of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Audiobook The Jungle
Audiobook · Sovereign

The Jungle

Author
Upton Sinclair
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
13 hours 13 minutes
ISBN
9781802561524
Published
7 November 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Upton Sinclair
  • muckraking
  • satire
  • injustice
  • investigative journalism
  • American
  • political
  • social
  • justice
  • corruption

All titles

Description

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair follows Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Chicago seeking the American Dream. Instead, he faces brutal working conditions in the meatpacking industry, exploitation, poverty, and corruption. As he struggles to support his family, he becomes disillusioned with the system that exploits immigrant labor. Sinclair’s novel exposes the dark side of industrial capitalism, ultimately sparking public outcry and reforms in food safety laws.

Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons.

More by Upton Sinclair

Other editions