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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 58 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Recorded Books classics library.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by George Guidall. |
| Summary |
Few books have so affected radical social changes as The Jungle, first published serially in 1906. Exposing unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry in Chicago, Sinclair's novel gripped Americans by the stomach, contributing to the passage of the first Food and Drug Act. If you've never read this classic novel, don't be put off by its gruesome reputation. Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who could turn even an exposE into a tender and moving novel. Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant, comes to America in search of a fortune for his family. He accepts the harsh realities of a working man's lot, laboring with naive vigor-until, his health and family sacrificed, he understands how the heavy wheels of the industrial machine can crush the strongest spirit. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Meat industry and trade -- Fiction.
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Packing-houses -- Fiction.
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Stockyards -- Fiction.
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Working class -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
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Lithuanian Americans -- Fiction.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Guidall, George. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781449876654 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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144987665X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13507986 |
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