By Upton Sinclair
ISBN-10: 1440656665
ISBN-13: 9781440656668
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply relocating tale uncovered the brutal stipulations within the Chicago stockyards on the flip of the 19th century and taken into sharp ethical concentration the appalling odds opposed to which immigrants and different operating humans struggled for his or her proportion of the yankee dream. Denounced by means of the conservative press as an un-American libel at the meatpacking undefined, the publication was once championed by way of extra revolutionary thinkers, together with then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was once a massive catalyst to the passing of the natural nutrients and Meat Inspection act, which has super impression to this day.
Enriched publication positive aspects Editor Jonathan Beecher box presents the next specifically commissioned gains for this Enriched book Classic:
Chronology
Filmography (and the 1914 The Jungle movie Poster)
Early Twentieth-Century studies of The Jungle
feedback for extra Reading
The Jungle and the natural nutrition and Drug Act of 1906
The Jungle ebook conceal Designs
Federal nutrition and medicine Act of 1906
Immigrants and the Meatpacking undefined, Then and Now
photographs of the Chicago Stockyards
pictures of Cuts of red meat and Pork
Enriched e-book Notes
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If so, Radclif gave no sign. “Well, it’s . . ” “Course I don’t see any difference. ” The truck hit suddenly a stretch of wide, hard road, un-bordered by tree-shade, though a black skirt of distant pines darkened the rim of a great field that lay to the left. A far-off figure, whether man or woman you could not tell, rested from hoeing to wave, and Joel waved back. Farther on, two little white-haired boys astride a scrawny mule shouted their delight when the truck passed, burying them in a screen of dust.
Radclif fingered the letter a moment before opening it; but presently, with clumsy care, he extracted a green sheet of tissue-like paper and, moving his lips, read: EDW. R. SANSOM, ESQ. SKULLY’S LANDING MAY 18, 19— MY DEAR ELLEN KENDALL, I am in your debt for answering my letter so quickly; indeed, by return post. Yes, hearing from me after twelve years must have seemed strange, but I can assure you sufficient reason prompted this long silence. However, reading in the Times-Picayune, to the Sunday issue of which we subscribe, of my late wife’s passing, may God the Almighty rest her gentle soul, I at once reasoned the honorable thing could only be to again assume my paternal duties, forsaken, lo, these many years.
Here it is,” he said, selecting one in a watergreen envelope. Radclif fingered the letter a moment before opening it; but presently, with clumsy care, he extracted a green sheet of tissue-like paper and, moving his lips, read: EDW. R. SANSOM, ESQ. SKULLY’S LANDING MAY 18, 19— MY DEAR ELLEN KENDALL, I am in your debt for answering my letter so quickly; indeed, by return post. Yes, hearing from me after twelve years must have seemed strange, but I can assure you sufficient reason prompted this long silence.
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