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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... Ona's stepmother—Teta ElZbieta, as they call her—bearing aloft a great platter of stewed duck. Behind her is Kotrina, making her way cautiously, staggering beneath a similar burden; and half a minute later there appears old Grandmother ...
... Ona's stepmother—Teta ElZbieta, as they call her—bearing aloft a great platter of stewed duck. Behind her is Kotrina, making her way cautiously, staggering beneath a similar burden; and half a minute later there appears old Grandmother ...
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... Ona seems scarcely to hear them—the music keeps calling, and the far-off look comes back, and she sits with her ... Ona's cheeks are scarlet, and she looks as if she would have to get up and run away. In this crisis, however, she is ...
... Ona seems scarcely to hear them—the music keeps calling, and the far-off look comes back, and she sits with her ... Ona's cheeks are scarlet, and she looks as if she would have to get up and run away. In this crisis, however, she is ...
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... Ona, at a horse fair a hundred miles from home. Jurgis had never expected to get married—he had laughed at it as a ... Ona's father proved as a rock—the girl was yet a child, and he was a rich man, and his daughter was not to be had in ...
... Ona, at a horse fair a hundred miles from home. Jurgis had never expected to get married—he had laughed at it as a ... Ona's father proved as a rock—the girl was yet a child, and he was a rich man, and his daughter was not to be had in ...
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... Ona's stepmother, and there were her six children, of all ages. There was also her brother Jonas, a dried-up little man who had worked upon the farm. They were people of great consequence, as it seemed to Jurgis, fresh out of the woods; Ona ...
... Ona's stepmother, and there were her six children, of all ages. There was also her brother Jonas, a dried-up little man who had worked upon the farm. They were people of great consequence, as it seemed to Jurgis, fresh out of the woods; Ona ...
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... Ona's. Marija was an orphan, and had worked since childhood for a rich farmer of Vilna, who beat her regularly. It ... Ona, who was a little of both. They had a hard time on the passage; there was an agent who helped them, but he proved ...
... Ona's. Marija was an orphan, and had worked since childhood for a rich farmer of Vilna, who beat her regularly. It ... Ona, who was a little of both. They had a hard time on the passage; there was an agent who helped them, but he proved ...
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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