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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... thoughts ; when- ever they thought of themselves in a house , it was this house that they thought of . And so they went and told the agent that they were ready to make the agreement . They knew , as an abstract proposition , that in ...
... thoughts ; when- ever they thought of themselves in a house , it was this house that they thought of . And so they went and told the agent that they were ready to make the agreement . They knew , as an abstract proposition , that in ...
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... thought of that aspect of it before . " I could be a Democrat , " he said . " Yes , " responded the other , " but not right away ; a man can't change his politics every day . And besides , I don't need you there'd be nothing for you to ...
... thought of that aspect of it before . " I could be a Democrat , " he said . " Yes , " responded the other , " but not right away ; a man can't change his politics every day . And besides , I don't need you there'd be nothing for you to ...
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... thoughts went elsewhere again . He kept his eyes fixed on the orator , who sat in an arm- chair , his head leaning on his ... thought that the vision must last forever , that he had found com- rades and brothers . But now he would go out ...
... thoughts went elsewhere again . He kept his eyes fixed on the orator , who sat in an arm- chair , his head leaning on his ... thought that the vision must last forever , that he had found com- rades and brothers . But now he would go out ...
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Chapter 1 | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 35 |
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