The Jungle (Modern Library Classics) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Jungle (Modern Library Classics) Friday, July 31 2009.

• “Practically alone among the American writers of his generation,” wrote Edmund Wilson, “<Sinclair> put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.” When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago’s stockyards and the laborer’s struggle against industry and “wage slavery.” It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers’ rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickens’s Hard Times , it remains the most influential workingman’s novel in American literature.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Jungle (Modern Library Classics) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Upton Sinclair: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Carroll R. Norden: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Jungle (Modern Library Classics) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• It was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.