Author and faster Frank Marrero explains the latest medical discoveries about the ease and benefits of fasting, rendering scientific language into the vernacular while maintaining the acuity of research. This book also contains the majority of The Fasting Cure by the great American author, Upton Sinclair.

The main character in the book is Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant trying to make ends meet in Chicago. The book begins with his and Ona's wedding feast. He and his family live near the stockyards and meatpacking district, where many immigrants work who do not know much English. He takes a job at Brown's slaughterhouse. Rudkus had thought the US would offer more freedom, but he finds working conditions harsh. He and his young wife struggle to survive. They fall deeply into debt and are prey to con men. Hoping to buy a house, they exhaust their savings on the down-payment for a...

The Jungle is a 1906 literature & fiction novel written by American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair wrote the genre fiction novel for a political purpose, to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other similar industrialized cities. Through literature & fiction, The Jungle exposed health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to political reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Upton Sinclair was an American author...

The Jungle is a 1906 literature & fiction novel written by American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Upton Sinclair wrote the genre fiction novel for a political purpose, to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other similar industrialized cities. Through literature & fiction, The Jungle exposed health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to political reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Upton Sinclair was an American author...

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). Upton Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the changing lives of immigrants traveling to the United States and landing in Chicago or other industrialized cities.

Sinclair exposed shocking government and business corruption in this 1906 best seller. He worked undercover in the meatpacking Chicago stockyards to describe in true detail the horrific conditions among workers and the food they produced.

His work, intended as a message to promote socialism, instead caused changes...

And Lizzie fell silent; for she too had learned much in three years and a half of married life. She had learned that working men's wives seldom get all they would like in this world; also that to have a propagandist for a husband is not the worst fate that may befall. After all, he might have been giving his time and money to drink, or to other women; he might have been dying of a cough, like the man next door. If one could not have a bit of pleasure on a Sunday afternoon-well, one might sigh, but not too loud. Jimmie began telling all the things that had to be done that Sunday morning and...