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Sinclair's `Jungle' Restored; Uncut Version of Muckraking Novel Due in Oct.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880823
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The original, uncut version of Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" will be published in October, eight decades after the original shocked the nation with its expose' of squalid conditions in the Chicago stockyards.

To make the book more marketable, Sinclair cut his original manuscript by a third for the 1906 Doubleday, Page edition, according to Gene DeGruson, a professor and curator of rare books at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, The New York Times reported yesterday.

DeGruson said he pieced together the original novel from a truckload of rotting paper given to him in 1980 by a ...

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