[lbo-talk] Re: The Jungle

Stuart Elliott Stuart323 at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 2 15:20:03 PDT 2005


The link to Phelp's edition of the Jungle is almost hidden in the McLemee interview http://www.bfwpub.com/highschool/book.asp?1149000400

Also of potential interest to LBOers might be the recent edition from See Sharp Press which is based on the version serialized in The Appeal to Reason and long unavailable.

http://www.seesharppress.com/books1.html

The publisher says "The original edition-almost unknown since its appearance as a serial in 1905, and quickly suppressed upon its brief re-emergence in the 1980s-is a full third longer than the censored commercial edition. It contains 36 chapters rather than the 31 in the common expurgated version, and restores Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary, additional gory descriptions of the meatpacking industry, ethnic color, and a large amount of material dealing with corporate crime and political corruption cut from the commercial edition. This edition also contains a new Foreword by Earl Lee dealing with the suppression of the original edition in 1905/1906 and again in the 1980s, and a new Introduction by Kathleen De Grave dealing at length with the pattern of and reasons for the cuts which resulted in the standard, expurgated edition. " ISBN 1-884365-30-2 / 368 pp. (oversize) / was $12.00, now only $10.00

See Sharp describes itself as a "cause-driven" small press. They've published of the Food Not Bombs manual, music how-to-do's, anarchist and free thought pamphlets and books, and critiques of AA and the treatment industry.

Stuart Elliott http://newappeal.blogspot.com/


> Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:18:34 -0400
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] The Jungle
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> Scott McLemee interviews Christopher Phelps, who put together a new
> teaching/scholarly edition of Sinclair Lewis' The Jungle:
> <http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/04/28/mclemee>. History &
> fiction, worker & consumer, etc.
>
> Doug



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