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Upton Sinclair. The Jungle. The Uncensored Original Edition.(Book review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20070101
Author:Widdicombe, Toby

Upton Sinclair. The Jungle. The Uncensored Original Edition. Introd. Kathleen De Grave. Tucson: See Sharp Press, 2003. xxvii + 335 pp. $12.00

The story of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a well-known one. Its impact was instrumental in creating the consumer-protection laws that we have today; its depiction of the brutal lives of recent immigrants shocked the reading public. It was arguably the first proletarian novel. It was certainly an inspired piece of reportage. It remains one of the most frequently assigned supplementary texts in history courses; it has always been one of ...

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