Contested
The Jungle
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA young immigrant comes to Chicago for a decent life and instead documents, meal by meal, exactly what goes into the meat his readers have been eating. Sinclair meant to write about labour and instead accidentally rewrote the country’s food safety laws. He said afterward he aimed for the public’s heart and hit its stomach.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 10 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- On the Contested shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #140. In the public domain in the United States.