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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... Teta Elzbieta had once loaned her some money for a few days and saved her from being turned out of her house . More and more friends gathered round while the lamen- tation about these things was going on . Some drew nearer , hoping to ...
... Teta Elzbieta had once loaned her some money for a few days and saved her from being turned out of her house . More and more friends gathered round while the lamen- tation about these things was going on . Some drew nearer , hoping to ...
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... Teta Elzbieta's dress . Early in the morning they sallied forth . Jurgis had given them so many instructions and warned them against so many perils , that the women were quite pale with fright , and even the imperturbable delicatessen ...
... Teta Elzbieta's dress . Early in the morning they sallied forth . Jurgis had given them so many instructions and warned them against so many perils , that the women were quite pale with fright , and even the imperturbable delicatessen ...
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... Teta Elzbieta would have to plead with him in frenzy . Elzbieta was all alone with him the greater part of the time . She would sit and smooth his forehead by the hour , and talk to him and try to make him forget . Sometimes it would be ...
... Teta Elzbieta would have to plead with him in frenzy . Elzbieta was all alone with him the greater part of the time . She would sit and smooth his forehead by the hour , and talk to him and try to make him forget . Sometimes it would be ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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