This Norton Critical Edition includes:
The Doubleday, Page and Company edition of The Jungle, published in
1906.
Revised and expanded introduction, headnotes, and explanatory
annotations by Clare Virginia Eby.
Thematically organized contexts and criticism with more than twenty new
voices represented, among them Marion Nestle, Thomas Piketty, Michael
Pollan, and Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman. Topics include
"Capitalism," "Immigration and Labor," "Nature," and "Upton Sinclair and
Literary Progressivism."
A chronology of Upton Sinclair's life and work and a selected
bibliography.
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