The JungleThe Floating Press, 1 janv. 2009 - 652 pages Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century. The dismal living and working conditions and sense of hopelessness prevalent among the impoverished workers is compared to the corruption of the rich. Upton aimed to make such "wage slavery" issues center-stage in the minds of the American public. Despite already being serialized, it was rejected as a novel five times before being published in 1906, when it quickly became a bestseller. |
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... Jurgis had met Ona, at a horse fair a hundred miles from home. Jurgis had never expected to get married—he had laughed at it as a foolish trap for a man to walk into, but here, without ever having spoken a word to her, with no more than ...
... Jurgis had met Ona, at a horse fair a hundred miles from home. Jurgis had never expected to get married—he had laughed at it as a foolish trap for a man to walk into, but here, without ever having spoken a word to her, with no more than ...
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Upton Sinclair. —they would live somehow. Jurgis, too, had heard of America. That was a country where, they said, a man might earn three rubles a day; and Jurgis figured what three rubles a day would mean, with prices as they were where ...
Upton Sinclair. —they would live somehow. Jurgis, too, had heard of America. That was a country where, they said, a man might earn three rubles a day; and Jurgis figured what three rubles a day would mean, with prices as they were where ...
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... Jurgis. He gave him a good cursing, but as Jurgis did not understand a word of it he did not obj ect. He followed the boss, who showed him where to put his street clothes, and waited while he donned the working clothes he had bought in ...
... Jurgis. He gave him a good cursing, but as Jurgis did not understand a word of it he did not obj ect. He followed the boss, who showed him where to put his street clothes, and waited while he donned the working clothes he had bought in ...
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... Jurgis would have it that Stanislovas should learn to speak English, and grow up to be a skilled man. So there was only old Dede Antanas; Jurgis would have had him rest too, but he was forced to acknowledge that this was not possible ...
... Jurgis would have it that Stanislovas should learn to speak English, and grow up to be a skilled man. So there was only old Dede Antanas; Jurgis would have had him rest too, but he was forced to acknowledge that this was not possible ...
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... Jurgis took occasion to broach a weighty subject. Passing down the avenue to work that morning he had seen two boys leaving an advertisement from house to house; and seeing that there were pictures upon it, Jurgis had asked for one, and ...
... Jurgis took occasion to broach a weighty subject. Passing down the avenue to work that morning he had seen two boys leaving an advertisement from house to house; and seeing that there were pictures upon it, Jurgis had asked for one, and ...
Table des matières
Chapter 18 | 317 |
Chapter 19 | 338 |
Chapter 20 | 358 |
Chapter 21 | 376 |
Chapter 22 | 393 |
Chapter 23 | 413 |
Chapter 24 | 431 |
Chapter 25 | 456 |
Chapter 9 | 167 |
Chapter 10 | 182 |
Chapter 11 | 199 |
Chapter 12 | 216 |
Chapter 13 | 229 |
Chapter 14 | 243 |
Chapter 15 | 256 |
Chapter 16 | 281 |
Chapter 17 | 297 |
Chapter 26 | 494 |
Chapter 27 | 525 |
Chapter 28 | 553 |
Chapter 29 | 580 |
Chapter 30 | 596 |
Chapter 31 | 619 |
Endnotes | 651 |
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