The Jungle [The Lost First Edition of Upton Sinclair's]

xxxi, 349 pp. "For the first time it is possible to see The Jungle in unaltered form as a socialist masterpiece freed of the censorship and editorial preferences of its first commercial publisher... Gene DeGruson, Curator of Rare Books at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, has written an authoritative introductory essay to accompany the original text in which he uncovers the complex publishing history of one of America's great works of fiction. ...This original edition, recreated here, is longer by one-third, and contains both the socialist agenda suppressed by Doubleday, Page and all of the ethnic detail which gave the original text much of its pathos."--jacket