LC control no. | n 87910591 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Jungle |
Variant(s) | Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Upton Sinclair's The jungle |
See also | Author: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 |
Other standard no. | Q260205 174237116 |
Form of work | Novels Serialized fiction Social problem fiction Proletarian fiction |
Beginning date | 1905 |
Associated place | Chicago (Ill.) |
Place of origin | United States |
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Found in | His Upton Sinclair's The jungle, 1988. Encyclopædia Britannica online, February 25, 2020 (The Jungle, novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906. The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards; follows Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, who came to the United States in the hope of living the American dream, and his extended family; they all live in a small town named Packingtown in Chicago) <https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Jungle-novel-by-Sinclair> Wikipedia, February 25, 2020 (The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968); wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities; depicts working-class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers; first published in serial form in 1905 in the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason) |