The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then

burning with potential

atmospheric tale of suspense

A memoir as gripping as it is moving

and nephew

Vivacious and plainspoken

a former British combat nurse

As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam

But when Emma's toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings

A tiny snowplow determined to prove his worth battles a blizzard in this supremely charming story in the tradition of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and The Little Engine that Could

and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night

or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other

foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity