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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... door . The music had started up , and half a block away you could hear the dull " broom , broom " of a ' cello , with the squeaking of two fiddles which vied with each other in intricate and altitudinous gymnastics . See- 1 ing the ...
... door . The music had started up , and half a block away you could hear the dull " broom , broom " of a ' cello , with the squeaking of two fiddles which vied with each other in intricate and altitudinous gymnastics . See- 1 ing the ...
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... door from the saloon , with a few loafers in the door- way , and in the corner beyond it a bar , with a presiding genius clad in soiled white , with waxed black mustaches and a carefully oiled curl plastered against one side of his ...
... door from the saloon , with a few loafers in the door- way , and in the corner beyond it a bar , with a presiding genius clad in soiled white , with waxed black mustaches and a carefully oiled curl plastered against one side of his ...
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... door , summon their resolution and advance ; and the shrinking Jurgis is poked and scolded by the old folks until he con- sents to seat himself at the right hand of the bride . The two bridesmaids , whose insignia of office are paper ...
... door , summon their resolution and advance ; and the shrinking Jurgis is poked and scolded by the old folks until he con- sents to seat himself at the right hand of the bride . The two bridesmaids , whose insignia of office are paper ...
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... doors of the packing - houses , at six o'clock on bitter winter mornings , with a foot of snow on the ground and more in the air . There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef - boners make forty cents an ...
... doors of the packing - houses , at six o'clock on bitter winter mornings , with a foot of snow on the ground and more in the air . There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef - boners make forty cents an ...
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... door . It was all Marija Berczynskas . Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse . All day long she had been in a state of wonderful exaltation ; and now it was leaving — and ...
... door . It was all Marija Berczynskas . Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse . All day long she had been in a state of wonderful exaltation ; and now it was leaving — and ...
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