The JungleNew American Library, 1980 - 350 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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 26
Page 53
... Jonas , who was a sharp little man , reminded them that the delicatessen business was a failure , according to its pro- prietor , and that this might account for his pessimistic views . Which , of course , reopened the subject ! The ...
... Jonas , who was a sharp little man , reminded them that the delicatessen business was a failure , according to its pro- prietor , and that this might account for his pessimistic views . Which , of course , reopened the subject ! The ...
Page 66
... Jonas , too , had gotten his job by the misfortune of some other person . Jonas pushed a truck loaded with hams from the smoke rooms to an ele- vator , and thence to the packing rooms . The trucks were all of iron , and heavy , and they ...
... Jonas , too , had gotten his job by the misfortune of some other person . Jonas pushed a truck loaded with hams from the smoke rooms to an ele- vator , and thence to the packing rooms . The trucks were all of iron , and heavy , and they ...
Page 122
... Jonas disappeared . One Saturday night he did not come home , and thereafter all their efforts to get trace of him were futile . It was said by the boss at Durham's that he had gotten his week's money and left there . That might not be ...
... Jonas disappeared . One Saturday night he did not come home , and thereafter all their efforts to get trace of him were futile . It was said by the boss at Durham's that he had gotten his week's money and left there . That might not be ...
Table des matières
Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
Droits d'auteur | |
29 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
agony Aniele Antanas Ashland asked beef began boss Bubbly Creek cattle cents chance Chicago cold corner cried crowd delicatessen dollars door drink Duane Durham's eyes face feet fight floor friends gave girl gone Guv'ner half Halsted Street hands head heard hogs hour hundred Jadvyga jail Jokubas Jonas Jurgis sat Jurgis stood Jurgis's keep killing beds knew labor lard laughed Lithuanian little Stanislovas lived look man-the Marija matter meat Mike Scully morning nearly never night Ona's once Ostrinski packers packing Packingtown police policeman Republican rushed saloon screaming Scully Slovaks snow Socialist soul stared stockyards stopped street suddenly Szedvilas Tamoszius tell Teta Elzbieta thing thought thousand told took turned union Upton Sinclair voice waiting walk week woman women wonderful workingman yards