The JungleUpton Sinclair, 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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... course , they knew nothing about the country , and had no one to tell them , and it was easy for a man in a blue uniform to lead them away , and to take them to a hotel and keep them there , and make them pay enormous charges to get ...
... course , they knew nothing about the country , and had no one to tell them , and it was easy for a man in a blue uniform to lead them away , and to take them to a hotel and keep them there , and make them pay enormous charges to get ...
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... course , they might pay forever , and be no better off ; whereas , if they could only meet the extra expense in the beginning , there would at last come a time when they would not have any rent to pay for the rest of their lives . They ...
... course , they might pay forever , and be no better off ; whereas , if they could only meet the extra expense in the beginning , there would at last come a time when they would not have any rent to pay for the rest of their lives . They ...
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... course , reopened the subject ! The controlling factor was that they could not stay where they were -- they had to go somewhere . And when they gave up the house plan and decided to rent , the prospect of paying out nine dollars a month ...
... course , reopened the subject ! The controlling factor was that they could not stay where they were -- they had to go somewhere . And when they gave up the house plan and decided to rent , the prospect of paying out nine dollars a month ...
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... course , put their dining - table in the kitchen , and the dining - room was used as the bedroom of Teta Elzbieta and five of her children . She and the two youngest slept in the only bed , and the other three had a mattress on the ...
... course , put their dining - table in the kitchen , and the dining - room was used as the bedroom of Teta Elzbieta and five of her children . She and the two youngest slept in the only bed , and the other three had a mattress on the ...
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... course he did not feel like work . Then , too , he was a puny little chap ; and so he had been left behind in the race , and that was why he was sore . And yet so many strange things kept coming to Jurgis's notice every day ! He tried ...
... course he did not feel like work . Then , too , he was a puny little chap ; and so he had been left behind in the race , and that was why he was sore . And yet so many strange things kept coming to Jurgis's notice every day ! He tried ...
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