{"product_id":"9780451472557","title":"The Jungle","description":"\u003cb\u003eUpton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices--with an afterword by Dr. Barry Sears, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Zone\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eJurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a better life, faces instead an epic struggle for survival. His story of factory life in Chicago in the early twentieth century is a saga of barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, crime, disease, and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpton Sinclair’s vivid depiction of the horrors of Chicago’s stockyards and slaughterhouses aroused such public indignation that a government investigation was called, eventually resulting in the passage of pure food laws. More than a hundred years later, \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025753260272,"sku":"9780451472557","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780451472557_p0.jpg?v=1769916182","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780451472557","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}