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I've recently been downloading free books onto my kindle and just finished reading The Jungle, and let me say if you've never heard of or read this book you're missing out. Its a fantastic story and absolutely gut wrenching in its description of a newly arrived immigrant family to America and the man who tries to keep it all together. The story is set in the first decade of the 1900s, and details how this family is churned through the American industrial machine. The words and imagery are some of the best I've read in a long time, you actually feel the hopelessness of the main character, I cannot fully describe it you simply have to read it. And what's best is, like I said, its free which means you can even start reading on online and I've provided a link to it as well.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/u-sinclair/TheJungle.pdf
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/u-sinclair/TheJungle.pdf