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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 86
Page 18
... once in his lifetime he could break his chains , and feel his wings , and behold the sun ; provided that once in his lifetime he might testify to the fact that life , with all its cares and its terrors , is no such great thing after all ...
... once in his lifetime he could break his chains , and feel his wings , and behold the sun ; provided that once in his lifetime he might testify to the fact that life , with all its cares and its terrors , is no such great thing after all ...
Page 23
... once more begin . It is now after midnight , however , and things are not as they were before . The dancers are full and heavy - most of them have been drinking hard , and have long ago passed the stage of exhilaration . They dance in ...
... once more begin . It is now after midnight , however , and things are not as they were before . The dancers are full and heavy - most of them have been drinking hard , and have long ago passed the stage of exhilaration . They dance in ...
Page 214
... once been , but his arms were still good , and there were few farm dogs he needed to hit more than once . Before long there came raspberries , and then black- berries , to help him save his money ; and there were apples in the orchards ...
... once been , but his arms were still good , and there were few farm dogs he needed to hit more than once . Before long there came raspberries , and then black- berries , to help him save his money ; and there were apples in the orchards ...
Table des matières
Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
Droits d'auteur | |
29 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
agony Aniele Antanas Ashland asked beef began boss Bubbly Creek cattle cents chance Chicago cold corner cried crowd delicatessen dollars door drink Duane Durham's eyes face feet fight floor friends gave girl gone Guv'ner half Halsted Street hands head heard hogs hour hundred Jadvyga jail Jokubas Jonas Jurgis sat Jurgis stood Jurgis's keep killing beds knew labor lard laughed Lithuanian little Stanislovas lived look man-the Marija matter meat Mike Scully morning nearly never night Ona's once Ostrinski packers packing Packingtown police policeman Republican rushed saloon screaming Scully Slovaks snow Socialist soul stared stockyards stopped street suddenly Szedvilas Tamoszius tell Teta Elzbieta thing thought thousand told took turned union Upton Sinclair voice waiting walk week woman women wonderful workingman yards