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The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

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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
  • Length148,309 words · 9h 53m of reading
  • Chapters33
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • 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.

  1. 01TO THE WORKINGMEN OF AMERICA
  2. 02CHAPTER I
  3. 03CHAPTER II
  4. 04CHAPTER III
  5. 05CHAPTER IV
  6. 06CHAPTER V
  7. 07CHAPTER VI
  8. 08CHAPTER VII
  9. 09There is a poet who sings that
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII
  11. 11CHAPTER IX
  12. 12CHAPTER X
  13. 13CHAPTER XI
  14. 14CHAPTER XII
  15. 15CHAPTER XIII
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV
  17. 17CHAPTER XV
  18. 18CHAPTER XVI
  19. 19CHAPTER XVII
  20. 20CHAPTER XVIII
  21. 21CHAPTER XIX
  22. 22CHAPTER XX
  23. 23CHAPTER XXI
  24. 24CHAPTER XXII
  25. 25CHAPTER XXIII
  26. 26CHAPTER XXIV
  27. 27CHAPTER XXV
  28. 28CHAPTER XXVI
  29. 29CHAPTER XXVII
  30. 30CHAPTER XXVIII
  31. 31CHAPTER XXIX
  32. 32CHAPTER XXX
  33. 33CHAPTER XXXI

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