Jungle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Contributor(s): Sinclair, Upton (Author), Schlosser, Eric (Foreword by), Gottesman, Ronald (Introduction by), Burns, Charles (Not Available)

ISBN: 9780143039587

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Binding Types:

Paperback

$22.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$34.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$33.75 (100+ copies: $33.00)

List/retail price:

$22.00

Pub Date: December 1, 2006

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2006043248

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.17" H x 8.52" L x 5.76" W ( 1.04 lbs) 432 pages

BISAC Categories:

Fiction | Historical | General

Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000005988 ( Jungle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition))

Reading level: 8.00

Interest level: UG

Point value: 22.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Documenting the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the century, this centennial edition of "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.

Review Quotes: "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

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