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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... week's labor painting cans . She holds her skirt with her hand as she dances , with stately precision , after the manner of the grandes dames . Juozas is driving one of Durham's wagons , and is making big wages . He affects a " tough ...
... week's labor painting cans . She holds her skirt with her hand as she dances , with stately precision , after the manner of the grandes dames . Juozas is driving one of Durham's wagons , and is making big wages . He affects a " tough ...
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... 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 more in the air . There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef ...
... 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 more in the air . There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef ...
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... week ; during which time eleven of her boarders , heavily in her debt , had concluded to try their chances of employment in Kansas City . This was July , and the fields were green . One never saw the fields , nor any green thing ...
... week ; during which time eleven of her boarders , heavily in her debt , had concluded to try their chances of employment in Kansas City . This was July , and the fields were green . One never saw the fields , nor any green thing ...
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... week . And then there was Marija Bercz- ynskas , who , fired with jealousy by the success of Jurgis , had set out upon her own responsibility to get a place . Marija had nothing to take with her save her two brawny arms and the word ...
... week . And then there was Marija Bercz- ynskas , who , fired with jealousy by the success of Jurgis , had set out upon her own responsibility to get a place . Marija had nothing to take with her save her two brawny arms and the word ...
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... week , and learn the business of can - painter . Marija went home , singing out loud all the way , and was just in ... week the kill . ing - gang at Brown's worked at full pressure , and Jurgis cleared a dollar seventy - five every day ...
... week , and learn the business of can - painter . Marija went home , singing out loud all the way , and was just in ... week the kill . ing - gang at Brown's worked at full pressure , and Jurgis cleared a dollar seventy - five every day ...
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