The Jungle takes place in the meatpacking plants, stockyards, and settlement houses of Chicago during the opening years of the twentieth century.
As much a work of journalism as of fiction, the novel grew out of Sinclair's firsthand observations of life in the "Yards" and his interviews with workers, foremen, and politicians. Although Sinclair wanted.....
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