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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... thing else ; but to this they cling with all the power of their souls -- they cannot give up the veselija ! To do that would mean , not merely to be defeated , but to acknowl- edge defeat and the difference between these two things is ...
... thing else ; but to this they cling with all the power of their souls -- they cannot give up the veselija ! To do that would mean , not merely to be defeated , but to acknowl- edge defeat and the difference between these two things is ...
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... thing after all , but merely a bubble upon the surface of a river , a thing that one may toss about and play with as a juggler tosses his golden balls , a thing that one may quaff , like a goblet of rare red wine . Thus having known ...
... thing after all , but merely a bubble upon the surface of a river , a thing that one may toss about and play with as a juggler tosses his golden balls , a thing that one may quaff , like a goblet of rare red wine . Thus having known ...
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Upton Sinclair. -- tation about these things was going on . Some drew nearer , hoping to overhear the conversation , who were themselves among the guilty and surely that was a thing to try the patience of a saint . Finally there came ...
Upton Sinclair. -- tation about these things was going on . Some drew nearer , hoping to overhear the conversation , who were themselves among the guilty and surely that was a thing to try the patience of a saint . Finally there came ...
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... things are not as they were before . The dancers are dull and heavy - most of them have been drinking hard , and have ... thing to do is to crack every fighting head that you see , before there are so many fighting heads that you cannot ...
... things are not as they were before . The dancers are dull and heavy - most of them have been drinking hard , and have ... thing to do is to crack every fighting head that you see , before there are so many fighting heads that you cannot ...
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... things became dingier ; the fields were grown parched and yellow , the landscape hideous and bare . And along with the thickening smoke they began to notice another circumstance , a strange , pungent odor . They ... thing . 28 THE JUNGLE.
... things became dingier ; the fields were grown parched and yellow , the landscape hideous and bare . And along with the thickening smoke they began to notice another circumstance , a strange , pungent odor . They ... thing . 28 THE JUNGLE.
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