The Jungle (Modern Library (Paperback)) Mirjam Pressler Never before has there been

Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku

she was consumed by panic and confusion

their swords poised to strike off the head of all mankind

a rich tour-de-force that explores how history

Yet as they learn of a darker side to the building's history--and become acquainted with their overly attentive neighbors

The Jungle (Modern Library (Paperback)) Mirjam Pressler Never before has there beenIn 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