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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... jail , and they would keep him here a long time , years maybe . And Ona would surely not go to work again , broken ... jail - or would they know that he was in jail , would they be able to find out anything about him ? Would they be ...
... jail , and they would keep him here a long time , years maybe . And Ona would surely not go to work again , broken ... jail - or would they know that he was in jail , would they be able to find out anything about him ? Would they be ...
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... jail was a Noah's ark of the city's crime - there were murderers , " hold - up men " and burglars , embezzlers , counterfeiters and forgers , bigamists , " shoplifters , " " confidence men , " petty thieves and pickpockets , gamblers ...
... jail was a Noah's ark of the city's crime - there were murderers , " hold - up men " and burglars , embezzlers , counterfeiters and forgers , bigamists , " shoplifters , " " confidence men , " petty thieves and pickpockets , gamblers ...
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... jail where Cook County prisoners serve their time . It was even filthier and more crowded than the county jail ; all the smaller fry out of the latter had been sifted into it - the petty thieves and swindlers , the brawlers and vagrants ...
... jail where Cook County prisoners serve their time . It was even filthier and more crowded than the county jail ; all the smaller fry out of the latter had been sifted into it - the petty thieves and swindlers , the brawlers and vagrants ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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