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Upton Sinclair; the Lithuanian jungle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Upton Sinclair; the Lithuanian jungle.

Subacius, Giedrius.

Editions Rodopi

2006

102 pages

$31.00

Paperback

On the boundary of two worlds; identity, freedom, and moral imaginations in the Baltics; 5

PS3537

Attracted by a recent strike, the very young Upton Sinclair journeyed to the Chicago stockyards and lived there for seven weeks to write The Jungle. He experienced the conditions of the neighborhood, the nature of the work, and the consequences of both on the human beings, many of whom happened to be Lithuanian. Here ...

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