Marja, in a new job, is cheated out of some of her pay,. Jurgis’s father dies from the horrid conditions at his job,. Marja, one of Jurgis’s relatives, find herself without a job when her factory closes for the winter,. The hard-working family is defrauded by a real estate dealer into buying an overpriced, rickety home,. In her 381-page book, Gehrmann, a Hamburg, Germany-based illustrator, rearranges much of Sinclair’s story, trims a lot, and shifts some of the descriptions in the original text into her characters’ dialogue.Īlthough Gehrmann’s book is a more condensed version of Sinclair’s story, her litany of scenes in which evils befall the Rudkuses is nearly as lengthy as his-scenes in which: Since then, no filmmaker has tried to tackle this sprawling melodramatic story in which just about everything that could go wrong for Jurgis and his family does. 
It’s interesting that the only movie ever made of the novel was produced in 1914 and often screened at Socialist meetings but is now lost.
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