![]() ![]() , he has been something else of value - one of the great information centers in American literature. "If Sinclair has never been a great creative novelist. "The UNCLE TOM'S CABIN of wage slavery!" - Jack London. "Next to UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, the most famous propaganda novel in American literature." - Adams, Radical Literature in America, p. ![]() ![]() This exposé of the Chicago stockyards and packing houses, more a Socialist treatise than a work of fiction, led to the pure food campaign of the Theodore Roosevelt era. Sinclair's best known and most popular novel. and Doubleday, Page & Company were published simultaneously: Jungle's copies with integral title leaf and the "SUSTAINER'S EDITION" label on the front paste-down are the earliest, but the Doubleday, Page copies with tipped in title leaves precede Jungle's regular copies. The editions of The Jungle Publishing Co. March 6, 1906." The projected publication date of the The Jungle Publishing Co. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Sinclair to poet George Sterling on the front free endpaper: "To George Sterling / with the regards of / The Author." Below Sinclair's inscription Jack London has added a gift inscription: "Blessed Greek! / - Wolf. 1-413, original pictorial olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and white. ![]()
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