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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... boss who proposed to add a little to his income . After Jurgis had been there awhile he would know that the plants were simply honeycombed with rotten- ness of that sort - the bosses grafted off the men , and they grafted off each other ...
... boss who proposed to add a little to his income . After Jurgis had been there awhile he would know that the plants were simply honeycombed with rotten- ness of that sort - the bosses grafted off the men , and they grafted off each other ...
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... boss , and the boss would start up a conversation with the gov- ernment inspector , and the two would stroll away . So in a trice the carcass of the cow would be cleaned out , and the entrails would have vanished ; it was Jurgis's task ...
... boss , and the boss would start up a conversation with the gov- ernment inspector , and the two would stroll away . So in a trice the carcass of the cow would be cleaned out , and the entrails would have vanished ; it was Jurgis's task ...
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... boss in Chicago - he's a state organizer of our party , and one of our best - known speakers ! " So the next morning Jurgis went to his employer and told him ; and the man seized him by the hand and shook it . " By Jove ! " he cried ...
... boss in Chicago - he's a state organizer of our party , and one of our best - known speakers ! " So the next morning Jurgis went to his employer and told him ; and the man seized him by the hand and shook it . " By Jove ! " he cried ...
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Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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