Jungle

Upton Sinclair It is not uncommon for successful novelists to feel, despite their popularity, misunderstood. Writing in Cosmopolitan in 1906, when The Jungle was taking America by storm, Upton Sinclair wrote: "Perhaps you will be surprised to be told that I failed in my purpose. . . . I wished to frighten the country by a picture of what its industrial masters were doing to their victims; entirely by chance I had stumbled on another discovery-what they were doing to the meat-supply of the civilized world. In other words, I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." The twenty-eight-year-old author had meant to convert readers to socialism; spurring legislation to make meat safer was just a fortuitous by-product.Sinclair, Upton is the author of 'Jungle', published 2003 under ISBN 9781587260896 and ISBN 1587260891.