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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Page 12
... lost his job , and that meant six weeks more of standing at the 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 ...
... lost his job , and that meant six weeks more of standing at the 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 ...
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... lost ; and it was only at night that , cower- ing in the doorway of a house , they were finally discovered and taken by a policeman to the station . In the morning an interpreter was found , and they were taken and put upon a car , and ...
... lost ; and it was only at night that , cower- ing in the doorway of a house , they were finally discovered and taken by a policeman to the station . In the morning an interpreter was found , and they were taken and put upon a car , and ...
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... lost in wonder , when suddenly the car came to a halt , and the door was flung open , and a voice shouted- " Stockyards ! " They were left standing upon the corner , staring ; down a side street there were two rows of brick houses , and ...
... lost in wonder , when suddenly the car came to a halt , and the door was flung open , and a voice shouted- " Stockyards ! " They were left standing upon the corner , staring ; down a side street there were two rows of brick houses , and ...
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... lost in wonder . He had dressed hogs himself in the forest of Lithuania ; but he had never expected to live to see one hog dressed by several hundred men . It was like a wonderful poem to him , and he took it all in guilelessly - even ...
... lost in wonder . He had dressed hogs himself in the forest of Lithuania ; but he had never expected to live to see one hog dressed by several hundred men . It was like a wonderful poem to him , and he took it all in guilelessly - even ...
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... lost , however , for there were several hanging in each line , and one was always ready . It was let down to the ground , and there came the " headsman , " whose task it was to sever the head , with two or three swift strokes . Then ...
... lost , however , for there were several hanging in each line , and one was always ready . It was let down to the ground , and there came the " headsman , " whose task it was to sever the head , with two or three swift strokes . Then ...
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