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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... keep alive ? There seemed never to be an end to the things they had to buy and to the unforeseen contingencies . Once their water- pipes froze and burst , and when , in their ignorance , they thawed them out , they had a terrifying ...
... keep alive ? There seemed never to be an end to the things they had to buy and to the unforeseen contingencies . Once their water- pipes froze and burst , and when , in their ignorance , they thawed them out , they had a terrifying ...
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... keep in the front row and look eager , and when he failed , go back home , and play with little Kotrina and the baby . The peculiar bitterness of all this was that Jurgis saw so plainly the meaning of it . In the beginning he had been ...
... keep in the front row and look eager , and when he failed , go back home , and play with little Kotrina and the baby . The peculiar bitterness of all this was that Jurgis saw so plainly the meaning of it . In the beginning he had been ...
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... keep alive for two months and more , and in that time he would surely find a job . He would have to bid farewell to his summer cleanliness , of course , for he would come out of the first night's lodging with his clothes alive with ...
... keep alive for two months and more , and in that time he would surely find a job . He would have to bid farewell to his summer cleanliness , of course , for he would come out of the first night's lodging with his clothes alive with ...
Table des matières
Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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