The Jungle

Resumen del libro

"Practically alone among the American writers of his generation," wrote Edmund Wilson, " Sinclair put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them." When it was first published in 1906, "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.

Biografía del autor

(Baltimore, 1878 Bound Brook, 1968) novelista y ensayista estadounidense de éxito cuya extensa obra estuvo siempre marcada por sus profundas convicciones socialistas. Novelas como "La jungla" (1906), "El rey carbón" (1917) o "Petróleo" (1927) le consagraron como uno de los grandes escritores de su tiempo. En 1940 publicó "El fin del mundo", primera entrega de la apasionante saga de Lanny Budd que, a lo largo de sus once libros, recorre la historia de la primera mitad del siglo XX y con cuyo tercer volumen, "Los dientes del dragón" (1942), le sería concedido el Premio Pulitzer en 1943.