The Jungle (Modern Library (Paperback)) Mirjam Pressler They inhabit a world of

They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives

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a rich tour-de-force that explores how history

The Jungle (Modern Library (Paperback)) Mirjam Pressler They inhabit a world ofIn 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