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Title	:	The Jungle
Author	:	Upton Sinclair
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	The Uncensored Original Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 335 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2003 by See Sharp Press (first published 1906)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Mythology. Classics. Childrens. Fiction

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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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Original Title:	The Jungle
ISBN:	1884365302 (ISBN13: 9781884365300)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jurgis, Ona Lukoszaite, Teta Elzbieta Lukoszaite
Setting:	Chicago, Illinois(United States) Illinois(United States)

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Introduction, by Ronald GottesmanSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the Text--The Jungle

Things not to do:-tug on Superman's cape-spit in the wind-discuss The Jungle extensively in your junior year literature class directly before lunchtime on hot dog day-mess around with JimI still don't eat hot dogs. And I ate hot dogs up until then, despite having uncles who worked at the hot dog factory that weren't the most finger-rich of individuals.Re-read in 2005 for Gapers Block book club.

Even teachers get things wrong. I remember throughout middle school and high school learning about The Jungle as the book intended to expose the American meatpacking industry. And while it did to that, Upton Sinclair's mission - which I discussed quite a bit in my Social Protest Literature course - centered more on exposing the evils of capitalism. The public's reception of The Jungle exemplifies the doctrine of unintended consequences, as Sinclair himself writes "I aimed at the public's heart,

What a disservice that this book is mostly read and remembered as a mere historical reference and expose on socialism and the meat-packing industry! The final four chapters which lapse into doctrine, preaching, and recruitment don't help any in casting off the label, but otherwise the book goes well beyond the Socialist politics which motivated Sinclair to write it. The first three hundred pages focus on hardened descriptions of the physical and emotional tragedy of working class immigrants

This is a shocking story about the meat packing industry. The things that ended up in the meat. It was also hard to hear what the workers went through and how this family struggled just to survive. How their food was filled with nasty things, how people swindled them. It was a hard life back then for immigrants. Very good book to learn a little bit about America's history.



Thank god this wasn't required reading in high school because I would have lost my mind.