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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... cattle , a sound as of a far - off ocean calling . They followed it this time , as eager as chil- dren in sight of a circus menagerie - which , indeed , the scene a good deal resembled . They crossed the railroad tracks , and then on ...
... cattle , a sound as of a far - off ocean calling . They followed it this time , as eager as chil- dren in sight of a circus menagerie - which , indeed , the scene a good deal resembled . They crossed the railroad tracks , and then on ...
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... cattle . They were drovers and stock - raisers , who had come from far states , and brokers and commission - merchants , and buyers for all the big packing houses . Here and there they would stop to inspect a bunch of cattle , and there ...
... cattle . They were drovers and stock - raisers , who had come from far states , and brokers and commission - merchants , and buyers for all the big packing houses . Here and there they would stop to inspect a bunch of cattle , and there ...
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... cattle finally came , so near frozen that to move was an agony . And then suddenly the place would spring into activity , and the merciless " speeding up " would begin ! There were weeks at a time when Jurgis went home after such a day ...
... cattle finally came , so near frozen that to move was an agony . And then suddenly the place would spring into activity , and the merciless " speeding up " would begin ! There were weeks at a time when Jurgis went home after such a day ...
Table des matières
Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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