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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... parties for the past five years ; it is high- waisted almost under her arms , and not very becoming , -but that does not trouble Jadvyga , who is dancing with her Mikolas . She is small , while he is big and powerful ; she nestles in ...
... parties for the past five years ; it is high- waisted almost under her arms , and not very becoming , -but that does not trouble Jadvyga , who is dancing with her Mikolas . She is small , while he is big and powerful ; she nestles in ...
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... party , five adults and six children — and Ona , who was a little of both . They had a hard time on the passage ; there was an agent who helped them , but he proved a scoundrel , and got them into a trap with some officials , and cost ...
... party , five adults and six children — and Ona , who was a little of both . They had a hard time on the passage ; there was an agent who helped them , but he proved a scoundrel , and got them into a trap with some officials , and cost ...
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... above and making filthy the earth beneath . But after each of these interruptions , the desolate procession would begin again -the procession of dreary little buildings . A full hour before the party reached the city they THE JUNGLE 27.
... above and making filthy the earth beneath . But after each of these interruptions , the desolate procession would begin again -the procession of dreary little buildings . A full hour before the party reached the city they THE JUNGLE 27.
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Upton Sinclair. A full hour before the party reached the city they had begun to note the perplexing changes in the atmosphere . It grew darker all the time , and upon the earth ... party became aware of another strange thing . 28 THE JUNGLE.
Upton Sinclair. A full hour before the party reached the city they had begun to note the perplexing changes in the atmosphere . It grew darker all the time , and upon the earth ... party became aware of another strange thing . 28 THE JUNGLE.
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Upton Sinclair. Then the party became aware of another strange thing . This , too , like the odor , was a thing elemental ; it was a sound , a sound made up of ten thousand little sounds . You scarcely noticed it at first - it sunk into ...
Upton Sinclair. Then the party became aware of another strange thing . This , too , like the odor , was a thing elemental ; it was a sound , a sound made up of ten thousand little sounds . You scarcely noticed it at first - it sunk into ...
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