Great Books Discussion Group - "The Jungle" by Sinclair Lewis

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Book Club

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Adults

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In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published his novel in serial form in 1905. In 1906, the novel was published in book format.