![]() ![]() We are pleased to present the following excerpt from Phelps’ introduction. ![]() It will be the first edition of the novel to include the full text of the report delivered to President Theodore Roosevelt by the independent agents he sent to Chicago to investigate Sinclair’s claims. Against the Current advisory editor Christopher Phelps is the editor of a new edition of The Jungle to be published this year by the Bedford imprint of St. ![]() The following year, The Jungle was published in book form and became a bestseller, prompting the reform of food inspection law. "The Jungle" at 100 | Solidarity The Jungle at 100 - Christopher PhelpsĮditors’ note: Upton Sinclair’s classic novel about an exploited immigrant meatpacking worker in Chicago, The Jungle, began serial publication exactly one hundred years ago (in February 1905) in the pages of the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason. ![]()
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