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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... lard , and then there was a factory for making lard cans , and another for making soap boxes . There was a building in which the bristles were cleaned and dried , for the making of hair cushions and such things ; there was a building ...
... lard , and then there was a factory for making lard cans , and another for making soap boxes . There was a building in which the bristles were cleaned and dried , for the making of hair cushions and such things ; there was a building ...
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... lard cans at work in it . The lard was finished on the floor above , and it came in little jets , like beautiful , wriggling , snow - white snakes of unpleas- ant odor . There were several kinds and sizes of jets , and after a certain ...
... lard cans at work in it . The lard was finished on the floor above , and it came in little jets , like beautiful , wriggling , snow - white snakes of unpleas- ant odor . There were several kinds and sizes of jets , and after a certain ...
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... lard cans . In summer the stench of the warm lard would be nauseating , and in winter the cans would all but freeze to his naked little fingers in the un- heated cellar . Half the year it would be dark as night when he went in to work ...
... lard cans . In summer the stench of the warm lard would be nauseating , and in winter the cans would all but freeze to his naked little fingers in the un- heated cellar . Half the year it would be dark as night when he went in to work ...
Table des matières
Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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