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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... watch them then . One of them had been stolen long ago , and not a month passed that some one did not try to steal another . As the frustrating of this one attempt involved a score of false alarms , it will be understood what a trib ...
... watch them then . One of them had been stolen long ago , and not a month passed that some one did not try to steal another . As the frustrating of this one attempt involved a score of false alarms , it will be understood what a trib ...
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... watches the door , where a carriage is supposed to come . It does not , and finally he will wait no longer , but comes up to Ona , who turns white and trembles . He puts her shawl about her and then his own coat . They live only two ...
... watches the door , where a carriage is supposed to come . It does not , and finally he will wait no longer , but comes up to Ona , who turns white and trembles . He puts her shawl about her and then his own coat . They live only two ...
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... watch them ; and so , as usual , they started up the street . Scarcely had they gone a block , however , before Jonas was heard to give a cry , and began pointing excitedly across the street . Before they could gather the meaning of his ...
... watch them ; and so , as usual , they started up the street . Scarcely had they gone a block , however , before Jonas was heard to give a cry , and began pointing excitedly across the street . Before they could gather the meaning of his ...
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... watch them , pressing on to their fate , all unsuspicious - a very river of death . Our friends were not poetical , and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny ; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all ...
... watch them , pressing on to their fate , all unsuspicious - a very river of death . Our friends were not poetical , and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny ; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all ...
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... watch very long without be coming philosophical , without beginning to deal in symbols and similes , and to hear the hog - squeal of the universe . Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth , or above the earth ...
... watch very long without be coming philosophical , without beginning to deal in symbols and similes , and to hear the hog - squeal of the universe . Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth , or above the earth ...
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