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Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Jungle

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Personal name headingSinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Jungle
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Variant(s)Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Upton Sinclair's The jungle
See alsoAuthor: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
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Other standard no.Q260205
174237116
Form of workNovels
Serialized fiction
Social problem fiction
Proletarian fiction
Beginning date1905
Associated placeChicago (Ill.)
Place of originUnited States
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Found inHis 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)
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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)