The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair is published by See Sharp Press and was released on April 1, 2003. This edition presents the original version of Sinclair’s classic novel, which has remained largely unknown for nearly a century. When first serialized in 1905, it was a third longer than the later censored edition, which omitted significant content, including ethnic elements and critical commentary on the meat-packing industry.
Readers will find the complete text of all 36 chapters as originally published, offering a more comprehensive view of Sinclair’s work. This edition also includes a new foreword discussing the discovery of the original text in the 1980s and its suppression, along with an introduction that contextualizes the novel within the history of censorship. With 368 pages, this English-language edition provides an in-depth exploration of the themes of social and political critique that Sinclair intended to convey.
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For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair’s classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair’s most pointed social and political commentary. The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905. It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition. A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition.
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