{"product_id":"the-jungle-17","title":"The jungle","description":"I wrote with tears and anguish, pouring into the pages all the pain that life had meant to me. Upton Sinclair\u003cp\u003eRanking alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin as a novel that has galvanized public opinion, The Jungle tells the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a young immigrant who came to the New World to find a better life. Instead, he is confronted with the horrors of the slaughterhouses, barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, disease, and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpton Sinclair vividly depicted factory life in Chicago in the first years of the twentieth century, and the harrowing scenes he related aroused the indignation of the public and forced a government investigation that led to the passage of pure food laws. A hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50663579648255,"sku":"*R0196220*","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/20645573482348.jpg?v=1792000251","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-jungle-17","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}