The Jungle

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1st World Library - Literary Society, 2006 - Fiction - 428 pages
"Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus has invested every last hope in achieving a prosperous new start in a new country. But the only job open to him--in the appalling stockyards of Packingtown, Chicago--will become a brutal, dispiriting, and dangerous challenge to his pride, his family, his life, and his faith in the American dream. A scathing condemnation of capitalism, corporate corruption, and the exploitation of the working class, The jungle was a sensation when first published. It stands as one the greatest and most influential proletarian novels ever written."--

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