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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... whole horde of demons . You can feel them in the air round about him , capering frenetically ; with their invisible feet they set the pace , and the hair of the leader of the orchestra rises on end , and his eye- balls start from their ...
... whole horde of demons . You can feel them in the air round about him , capering frenetically ; with their invisible feet they set the pace , and the hair of the leader of the orchestra rises on end , and his eye- balls start from their ...
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... whole room is soon in motion . Apparently nobody knows how to waltz , but that is nothing of any consequence- there is music , and they dance , each as he pleases , just as before they sang . Most of them prefer the " two - step ...
... whole room is soon in motion . Apparently nobody knows how to waltz , but that is nothing of any consequence- there is music , and they dance , each as he pleases , just as before they sang . Most of them prefer the " two - step ...
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... whole reserves at the station . The thing to do is to crack every fighting head that you see , before there are so many fighting heads that you cannot crack any of them . There is but scant account kept of cracked heads in back of the ...
... whole reserves at the station . The thing to do is to crack every fighting head that you see , before there are so many fighting heads that you cannot crack any of them . There is but scant account kept of cracked heads in back of the ...
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... whole family was adrift - all they owned in the world being about seven hundred roubles , which is half as many dol- lars . They would have had three times that , but it had gone to court , and the judge had decided against them , and ...
... whole family was adrift - all they owned in the world being about seven hundred roubles , which is half as many dol- lars . They would have had three times that , but it had gone to court , and the judge had decided against them , and ...
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... whole of the first day they wandered about in the midst of deafening con fusion , utterly lost ; and it was only at night that , cower- ing in the doorway of a house , they were finally discovered and taken by a policeman to the station ...
... whole of the first day they wandered about in the midst of deafening con fusion , utterly lost ; and it was only at night that , cower- ing in the doorway of a house , they were finally discovered and taken by a policeman to the station ...
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