The JungleHuge Print Press, 1920 - 413 pages 1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page. |
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... crowd , and they went thunder- ing away at a gallop . Some steers had just escaped from the yards , and the strikers had got hold of them , and there would be the chance of a scrap ! They went out at the Ashland Avenue gate , and over ...
... crowd , and they went thunder- ing away at a gallop . Some steers had just escaped from the yards , and the strikers had got hold of them , and there would be the chance of a scrap ! They went out at the Ashland Avenue gate , and over ...
Page 344
... crowd to give back . At the same instant a stout woman , with painted cheeks and dia- monds in her ears , came running down the stairs , panting breathlessly : " To the rear ! Quick ! " She led the way to a back staircase , Jurgis ...
... crowd to give back . At the same instant a stout woman , with painted cheeks and dia- monds in her ears , came running down the stairs , panting breathlessly : " To the rear ! Quick ! " She led the way to a back staircase , Jurgis ...
Page 356
... crowd upon the platform , and almost every seat in the place was filled . He took one of the last , far in the rear , and straightway forgot all about his surroundings . Would Elzbieta think that he had come to sponge off her , or would ...
... crowd upon the platform , and almost every seat in the place was filled . He took one of the last , far in the rear , and straightway forgot all about his surroundings . Would Elzbieta think that he had come to sponge off her , or would ...
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