[lbo-talk] Re: The Jungle

Greg Boozell gboozell at juno.com
Mon May 2 17:23:54 PDT 2005


The Jungle was also adapted to silent film although the film has since been lost. A picture of the movie poster is at http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/stkyards.htm

(scroll about 1/2 down the page)

Greg Boozell gboozell at juno.com

On Mon, 2 May 2005 17:20:03 -0500 "Stuart Elliott" <Stuart323 at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 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/
>
>



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