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by: Upton Sinclair
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781884365300
ISBN: 1884365302
Label: See Sharp Press
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: April 01, 2003
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Sales Rank: 28980
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Product Description:
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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Rating:  - Important, not-to-miss
I bought this as a gift for a family member who is a devotee of "Fast Food Nation."
I read this first when I was a teenager, at the urging of my father.
This book never disappoints, and is as fresh today as it was when it was published.
Always a muckraker, Sinclair delivers.
It is helpful to have the book in its uncensored version.
Rating:  - Interesting Book
But the ending is absurd considering that the "capitalist industrialists" are in fact socialists themselves (Carnegie, Morgan, Rothschild, Roosevelt, etc.) and that dehumanizing factories were not built until the era of socialist control over politics, economics, education, etc. (easily the Gilded Age but honestly back to the French Revolution).
Traditional, conservative economies had citizens who provided for themselves from the land or in the towns from an established craft whereas ... Read More
Rating: - Jungle
Haven't had a chance to read much of the book, but what I have read indicated the writer (Upton Sinclair) was truly a man with a attitude towards the society in which he lived. Don't think he liked his life. Realistic and hard hitting...yet those were the times in which he lived.
Rating: - The reason I pay my union dues
Living in a right-to-work state, you forget why we have unions. As a teenager, I read this book for school and fell in love with it. My parents and family were all union backers (teachers, firefighters, etc.), but I did not understand why we had unions. Then I read this book and ever since I have paid my union dues. Sinclair is an outstanding writer and I think everyone should read this book to understand where we have been and where we are now in labor. So read this book and cherish the life we have ... Read More
Rating: - Timeless Classic
I was very surprised to find myself enjoying this book. I was nervous that the language would be dated to a point of difficulty, or that it would be slower than a snail. But this is far from the truth. The writing is easy to follow and the characters very believable. Given that Sinclair based this novel on events and people he actually witnessed in the meat packing industry of Chicago more than 100 years ago, it only makes sense that the characters seem real. And just when you think this can't possibly ... Read More
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