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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... night without another mouth- ful of food . Jurgis wanted to wait for them , to help them home at night , but they would not think of this ; the ferti- lizer mill was not running overtime , and there was no place for him to wait save in ...
... night without another mouth- ful of food . Jurgis wanted to wait for them , to help them home at night , but they would not think of this ; the ferti- lizer mill was not running overtime , and there was no place for him to wait save in ...
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... night . He kicked me — last night — too . And now you will kill him - you - you will kill him — and we shall die . " All this she had said without a quiver ; she lay still as death , not an eyelid moving . And Jurgis , too , said not a ...
... night . He kicked me — last night — too . And now you will kill him - you - you will kill him — and we shall die . " All this she had said without a quiver ; she lay still as death , not an eyelid moving . And Jurgis , too , said not a ...
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... night in a vacant lot ; but now there fell suddenly a shadow of the advancing winter , a chill wind from the north and a driving storm of rain . That day Jurgis bought two drinks for the sake of the shelter , and at night he spent his ...
... night in a vacant lot ; but now there fell suddenly a shadow of the advancing winter , a chill wind from the north and a driving storm of rain . That day Jurgis bought two drinks for the sake of the shelter , and at night he spent his ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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