基本信息出版社：Bantam Classics
页码：400 页
出版日期：1981年09月
ISBN：0553212451
条形码：9780553212457
装帧：简装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Bantam Classics
外文书名：丛林
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In this powerful book we enter the world of  Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives  in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom,  and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the  astonishing truth about "packingtown," the  busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where  new world visions perish in a jungle of human  suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the  "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's  lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking  labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery,"  the bewildering chaos of urban life. The  Jungle, a story so shocking that it  launched a government investigation, recreates this  startling chapter if our history in unflinching  detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform,  Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his  1906 novel stands as one of the most important --  and moving -- works in the literature of social  change.
作者简介 Jane Jacobs is one of the most original economic and sociological thinkers of our day. Her books include the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities and, most recently, The Nature of Economies, both of which are available in Modern Library clothbound editions. She lives in Toronto.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
编辑推荐 Review
“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair’s] novels.” —George Bernard Shaw
Review
?When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair?s] novels.? ?George Bernard Shaw
From the Trade Paperback edition.
专业书评 Review
“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair’s] novels.” —George Bernard Shaw
Review
?When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair?s] novels.? ?George Bernard Shaw
From the Trade Paperback edition.