The Jungle
Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1170
subjects: lithuanian americans, working class, stockyards, immigrants, chicago (ill.), meat industry and trade, meat industry, polish americans, meat industry and trade fiction, food and drug laws, meat packing industry, sinclair, upton, american literature, meatpacking industry, working conditions, pure food and drug act, political fiction, political fiction [X], audiobooks, audiobooks, compact discs, illinois, didactic fiction, politics, electronic books
Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Harriet Beecher Stowe's timeless classic about slavery and redemption in the pre-Civil War South comes to life in this vivid and dramatic adaptation.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1050
subjects: uncle tom (fictitious character), master and servant, african americans, fugitive slaves, plantation life, southern states, slavery, slaves, political fiction, uncle tom (fictional character), stowe, harriet beecher, cartoons and comics, comic books, strips, etc, slavery in literature, slavery united states fiction, 11030 fiction in english p1030 american writers 1830-1861 60030 texts, 0567442, 000152x, 0001686, political fiction [X], didactic fiction, electronic books