false 41680 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750569m/41680.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750569s/41680.jpg The Jungle tells the story of Jurgis Rudus, a young immigrant who came to the New World to find a better life. Instead, he is confronted with the horrors of the Chicago slaughterhouses, barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, disease and despair.]]> 41681 127 1253187 book 1905 The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition total:12792|5:3093|4:4626|3:3646|2:1048|1:379| 12792 47382 17512 1287 23510 3.69 14062 1576 24495676 1239298 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.73 9322 1905 4 14 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Jun 14 13:38:14 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 15:01:56 -0700 2008 It is true that ...more...]]> 37520951 695451 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 3 18 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Wed Nov 12 09:38:12 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 09:44:37 -0800 2008
MOM: Could you pass the turkey?

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Wow. Now I can see why this book had such a big impression on those who read it in the early twentieth century. Really heart-wrenching (and gut-wrenching) stuff. There's the famous quote that Sinclair said he aimed for the public's heart and hit it in the stomach instead...more...]]> 60358029 2422096 818350 0553212451 9780553212457 15 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178661800m/818350.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178661800s/818350.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818350.The_Jungle 3.44 113 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.]]> 1905 5 6 false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 18:17:25 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 22:07:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 31805484 896799 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 5 6 false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 07:58:43 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 09:47:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 17004720 951283 1264364 0553897799 9780553897791 23 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1264364.The_Jungle 3.78 169 1905 3 5 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Tue Mar 04 12:59:45 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 13:06:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 21330129 1061721 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 3 4 false Wed May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 10:51:36 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 22:47:52 -0700 2008 Once "They could tell the whole hateful story of it, set forth in the inner soul of a city in which justice and honor, women's bodies and men's souls were for sale in the marketplace, and human beings writhed and fought and fell upon each other like wolves in a pit, in which lusts were raging fires,...more...]]> 11883889 297128 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 4 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Mon Jan 07 10:17:16 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 10:36:00 -0800 2008
There Will be Blood is just as stark, arresting and ...more...]]> 31572680 784513 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 3 3 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Aug 29 20:42:32 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 20:46:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 18146620 544254 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 5 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 19:46:48 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 19:51:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 27488856 1020348 581915 0140390316 9780140390315 58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175998583m/581915.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175998583s/581915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581915.The_Jungle 3.65 387 The Jungle tells the story of Jurgis Rudus, a young immigrant who came to the New World to find a better life. Instead, he is confronted with the horrors of the Chicago slaughterhouses, barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, disease and despair.]]> 1905 3 5 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Wed Jul 16 21:17:13 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 21:21:40 -0700 2008 -tug on Superman's cape
-spit in the wind
-discuss The Jungle extensively in your junior year literature class directly before lunchtime on hot dog day
-mess around with Jim

I still don't eat hot dogs. And I ate hot dogs up until then, despite having ...more...]]> 38255445 1735947 124628 1561634115 9781561634118 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171878036m/124628.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171878036s/124628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124628.The_Jungle 3.71 106 1905 1 4 false Thu Nov 20 15:33:03 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 10 08:03:54 -0700 2009 0 Sinclair Lewis never wrote a book called "The Jungle."
Upton Sinclair, however, did. Do you guys even read books?]]> 38104660 1730701 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 5 1 false Wed Mar 23 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Nov 18 20:37:24 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 21:00:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 26463939 914306 129213 014303958X 9780143039587 19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171984423m/129213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171984423s/129213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129213.The_Jungle 3.68 161 The Jungle brings into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream.]]> 1905 4 2 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jul 06 15:41:09 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 15:41:09 -0700 2008 The Jungle. I know that this is traditionally an item on many high school required reading lists, but I picked it up of my own volition a few years ago. Coincidentally, Hurricane Katrina had just swept through my life, indirectly causing me to become a vegetarian.

Sinclair's writing...more...]]> 23082523 1180394 86917 0375759506 9780375759505 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171092040m/86917.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171092040s/86917.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86917.The_Jungle 3.52 238 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.]]> 1905 4 1 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1971 Tue May 27 17:31:13 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 25 06:34:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 49875831 1570669 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 5 1 false Fri Mar 20 10:50:23 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 11:00:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 80182894 3018586 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 0 0 false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0800 1981 Mon Dec 07 11:02:36 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 11:35:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 74969351 2853608 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 4 0 false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 18:24:59 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 18:33:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 74931776 2852525 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 5 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 12:03:19 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 12:03:19 -0700 2009
This book is tearing me to pieces! How can you bear it? Every time it feels like it might be okay, I am brought along to be dashed also upon the rocks of despair.

I guess this is the point. I guess it is a virtue of the writing and the strength of the story... but I am not sur...more...]]> 70680745 253624 41681 1884365302 9781884365300 856 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570m/41681.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169750570s/41681.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle 3.70 12792 1905 3 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:59:06 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 20:59:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=41680