The Jungle - Deluxe Edition
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition featuring cover art by Charles Burns.
Published only in the US, but imported by the Design Museum on the basis of their outstanding design, The Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions have been selectied for Brit Insurance Designs Of The Year 2008 exhibition. Each book in this series is lavishly prestented, with cover designs by prominent illustrators, artists and designers.
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 president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.
Eric Schlosser - Introduction
Charles Burns - Jacket Illustrator
Materials
Paperback
