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 13
... never seem to tire ; and there is no place for them to sit down if they did . It is only for a minute , anyway , for the leader starts up again , in spite of all the protests of the other two . This time it is another sort of a dance ...
... never seem to tire ; and there is no place for them to sit down if they did . It is only for a minute , anyway , for the leader starts up again , in spite of all the protests of the other two . This time it is another sort of a dance ...
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... 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 of the work ...
... 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 of the work ...
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... never seen a city , and scarcely even a fair - sized town , until he had set out to make his fortune in the world and earn his right to Ona . His father , and his father's father before him , and as many ancestors back as legend could ...
... never seen a city , and scarcely even a fair - sized town , until he had set out to make his fortune in the world and earn his right to Ona . His father , and his father's father before him , and as many ancestors back as legend could ...
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... never a hill and never a hollow , but always the same endless vista of ugly and dirty little wooden buildings . Here and there would be a bridge crossing a filthy creek , with hard - baked mud shores and dingy sheds and docks along it ...
... never a hill and never a hollow , but always the same endless vista of ugly and dirty little wooden buildings . Here and there would be a bridge crossing a filthy creek , with hard - baked mud shores and dingy sheds and docks along it ...
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... never saw the fields , nor any green thing whatever , in Packingtown ; but one could go out on the road and " hobo it , " as the men phrased it , and see the country , and have a long rest , and an easy time riding on the freight - cars ...
... never saw the fields , nor any green thing whatever , in Packingtown ; but one could go out on the road and " hobo it , " as the men phrased it , and see the country , and have a long rest , and an easy time riding on the freight - cars ...
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