The Jungle, published in 1906, is Upton Sinclair's novel about immigrant workers in the meatpacking district of Chicago, and it is one of the most influential American novels ever written. It opens at the wedding feast of Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite, Lithuanian immigrants who have come to America with Ona's family, hoping for prosperity.
Upton Sinclair · CatalogUpton SinclairUpton Sinclair · CatalogUpton Sinclair (1878-1968) was an American novelist and reformer whose more than ninety books include The Jungle; he ran for governor of California in 1934 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943.The Jungle
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Short biography: Upton Sinclair in Great Lives