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Book Review of The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions)

The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions)
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FROM PAPERBACK SWAP: "1906 best-seller 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."