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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... months in America , and the change has not done him good . In his manhood he worked in a cotton - mill , but then a coughing fell upon him , and he had to leave ; out in the country the trouble disappeared , but he has been working in ...
... months in America , and the change has not done him good . In his manhood he worked in a cotton - mill , but then a coughing fell upon him , and he had to leave ; out in the country the trouble disappeared , but he has been working in ...
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... months and once for nearly seven . The last time , too , he 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 ...
... months and once for nearly seven . The last time , too , he 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 ...
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... months in the year never see the sunlight from Sunday afternoon till the next Sun- day morning - and who cannot earn three hundred dol- lars in a year . There are little children here , scarce in their teens , who can hardly see the top ...
... months in the year never see the sunlight from Sunday afternoon till the next Sun- day morning - and who cannot earn three hundred dol- lars in a year . There are little children here , scarce in their teens , who can hardly see the top ...
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... months ' overdue rent ? And then there was withered old poni Aniele - who was a widow , and had three children , and ... month passed that some one did not try to steal another . As the frustrating of this one attempt involved a score of ...
... months ' overdue rent ? And then there was withered old poni Aniele - who was a widow , and had three children , and ... month passed that some one did not try to steal another . As the frustrating of this one attempt involved a score of ...
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... month . — yes , many months — and not been chosen yet . " Yes , " he would say , " but what sort of men ? Broken - down tramps and good - for - nothings , fellows who have spent all their money drinking , and want to get more for it ...
... month . — yes , many months — and not been chosen yet . " Yes , " he would say , " but what sort of men ? Broken - down tramps and good - for - nothings , fellows who have spent all their money drinking , and want to get more for it ...
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