The Jungle
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It was four o’clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija’s broad shoulders—it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exho…
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- AuthorUpton Sinclair
- SourceProject Gutenberg #140
- Length150,586 words · 10h 02m of reading
- Chapters33
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
33 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01TO THE WORKINGMEN OF AMERICA
- 02CHAPTER I
- 03CHAPTER II
- 04CHAPTER III
- 05CHAPTER IV
- 06CHAPTER V
- 07CHAPTER VI
- 08CHAPTER VII
- 09There is a poet who sings that
- 10CHAPTER VIII
- 11CHAPTER IX
- 12CHAPTER X
- 13CHAPTER XI
- 14CHAPTER XII
- 15CHAPTER XIII
- 16CHAPTER XIV
- 17CHAPTER XV
- 18CHAPTER XVI
- 19CHAPTER XVII
- 20CHAPTER XVIII
- 21CHAPTER XIX
- 22CHAPTER XX
- 23CHAPTER XXI
- 24CHAPTER XXII
- 25CHAPTER XXIII
- 26CHAPTER XXIV
- 27CHAPTER XXV
- 28CHAPTER XXVI
- 29CHAPTER XXVII
- 30CHAPTER XXVIII
- 31CHAPTER XXIX
- 32CHAPTER XXX
- 33CHAPTER XXXI
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