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. |
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... Mike Scully . Scully held an important party office in the state , and bossed even the mayor of the city , it was said ; it was his boast that he carried the stockyards in his pocket . He was an enormously rich man - he had a hand in ...
... Mike Scully . Scully held an important party office in the state , and bossed even the mayor of the city , it was said ; it was his boast that he carried the stockyards in his pocket . He was an enormously rich man - he had a hand in ...
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... Mike Scully , whom he con- sulted , advised him that something might " turn up " before long . Jurgis got himself a place in a boarding house with some congenial friends . He had already inquired of Aniele , and learned that Elzbieta ...
... Mike Scully , whom he con- sulted , advised him that something might " turn up " before long . Jurgis got himself a place in a boarding house with some congenial friends . He had already inquired of Aniele , and learned that Elzbieta ...
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... Scully's , who had been attacked by a strike - breaker . So the bail was reduced to three hundred dollars , and ... Mike Scully ! All that he told Jurgis was that he was now free , and that the best thing he could do was to clear out as ...
... Scully's , who had been attacked by a strike - breaker . So the bail was reduced to three hundred dollars , and ... Mike Scully ! All that he told Jurgis was that he was now free , and that the best thing he could do was to clear out as ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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