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The Jungle
ISBN/GTIN

The Jungle

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
Verkaufsrang44267inBelletristik
CHF36.90

Beschreibung

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle depicts harsh realities in early 20th-century American industry through the eyes of the Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus. As he grapples with exploitation, corruption and the brutality of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair's powerful narrative serves as a compelling call for social reform, resonating with readers' conscience.
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ISBN/GTIN979-8-8691-7321-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum06.02.2024
Seiten480 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 127 mm, Höhe 203 mm, Dicke 29 mm
Gewicht573 g
Artikel-Nr.51205143
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.46055085
WarengruppeBelletristik
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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (1878 - 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence". He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Upton Sinclair was considered a force of nature -- being not only prolific in his novel-writing but a political force of decided influence. Unknown to many of his admirers, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction, under the name Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.