The JungleSignet Classic, 1990 - 352 pages In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown, " the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery, " the bewildering chaos of urban life. "The Jungle," a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change. |
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... began to warn them that the winter was coming again . It seemed as if the respite had been too short - they had not had time enough to get ready for it ; but still it came , inexorably , and the hunted look began to come back into the ...
... began to warn them that the winter was coming again . It seemed as if the respite had been too short - they had not had time enough to get ready for it ; but still it came , inexorably , and the hunted look began to come back into the ...
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... began to vomit - he vomited until it seemed as if his inwards must be torn into shreds . A man could get used to the fertilizer mill , the boss had said , if he would only make up his mind to it ; but Jurgis now began to see that it was ...
... began to vomit - he vomited until it seemed as if his inwards must be torn into shreds . A man could get used to the fertilizer mill , the boss had said , if he would only make up his mind to it ; but Jurgis now began to see that it was ...
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... began , in the usual formula , " will you give me the price of a lodging ? I've had a broken arm , and I can't work , and I've not a cent in my pocket . I'm an honest workingman , sir , and I never begged before . It's not my fault ...
... began , in the usual formula , " will you give me the price of a lodging ? I've had a broken arm , and I can't work , and I've not a cent in my pocket . I'm an honest workingman , sir , and I never begged before . It's not my fault ...
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