The Jungle - Upton Sinclair - Bøger -  - 9798671107616 - 28. oktober 2020
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The Jungle

Book Excerpt: ...now rolled up at the sleeves, disclosing her brawny arms; she has a carving fork in her hand, with which she pounds on the table to mark the time. As she roars her song, in a voice of which it is enough to say that it leaves no portion of the room vacant, the three musicians follow her, laboriously and note by note, but averaging one note behind; thus they toil through stanza after stanza of a lovesick swain's lamentation: --"Sudiev' kvietkeli, tu brangiausis; Sudiev' ir laime, man biednam, Matau--paskyre teip Aukszcziausis, Jog vargt ant svieto reik vienam!"When the song is over, it is time for the speech, and old Dede Antanas rises to his feet. Grandfather Anthony, Jurgis' father, is not more than sixty years of age, but you would think that he was eighty. He has been only six months in America, and the change has not done him good. In his manhood he worked in a cotton mill, but then a coughing fell upon him, and he had to leave; out in the country the trouble disappeared, but he has been wo...

Medie Bøger     Paperback Bog   (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet 28. oktober 2020
ISBN13 9798671107616
Antal sider 316
Mål 152 × 229 × 18 mm   ·   462 g
Sprog Engelsk  

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