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The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

Narrator Michael Lackey

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Length 17 hours 20 minutes

Language English

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Summary
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Jurgis Rudkus, an impoverished Lithuanian immigrant, takes a lowly job at Brown's slaughterhouse to support his young wife and their relatives. Once admiring America for its potential, Rudkus has found opportunities to be too far out of his reach. After being evicted, Rudkus is living in a slum and deeply in debt - unable to support his family. As he attempts to make ends meet, the oppressive working conditions and crippling poverty begin to take a toll on Rudkus and his family.

Classics Fiction Historical Fiction

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is a celebrated American author best known for his 1906 novel, The Jungle, which exposed to poor working conditions and potential health violations in the meatpacking industry. The novel caused a public uproar which resulted in sweeping changes of the industry and catapulted Sinclair into the limelight. He went on to write nearly 100 books and won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Michael Lackey is a professional theatre actor and voice artist with more than forty years of experience. A veteran of more than forty productions, he has performed Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera with four companies, doing over 3,500 performances and playing the title role more than 200 times. His voice has been heard on national television as an announcer for skating specials and in several commercials, and he has narrated several audiobooks.