Editing The Jungle (section)

===Editions Based on Serialized Version===

In 1988, St. Lukes Press, a division of Peachtree Publishers Ltd, published an edition titled "The Lost First Edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle" based on the original serialized version of "The Jungle" as seen in "Appeal to Reason". This version was edited by Gene Degruson of Pittsburg State University, based on a correspondence regarding the novel found in the basement of a farm in [[Girard, Kansas]]. The book included an introductory essay by DeGruson detailing the process of how he "restored" the text.<ref name = "The Lost First Edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle">{{cite book|last=Sinclair|first=Upton|title=The Lost First Edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle|year=1988|publisher=St. Lukes Press|location=Atlanta, GA|isbn=0918518660|url=https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31295112060&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-tile7&searchurl=fe%3Don%26ds%3D10%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dthe%2Bjungle%26an%3Dupton%2Bsinclair}}</ref>

In 2003, [[See Sharp Press]] published an edition based on the original serialization of ''The Jungle'' in ''Appeal to Reason'', which they described as the "Uncensored Original Edition" as Sinclair intended it. The foreword and introduction say that the commercial editions were censored to make their political message acceptable to capitalist publishers.<ref name="The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition">{{cite book|last=Sinclair|first=Upton|title=The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition|year=1905|publisher=See Sharp Press|location=Tucson, AZ|isbn=1884365302|page=vi|url=https://archive.org/details/jungleuncensored00sinc}}</ref> 

Others argue that Sinclair had made the revisions of the original text himself, to make the novel more accurate and engaging for the reader, to correct the Lithuanian references, and to streamline the text to eliminate parts that would not appeal to the public, as Sinclair himself said in letters and his 1932 memoir, ''American Outpost''.<ref name="The Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle">{{cite web|last=Phelps|first=Christopher| author-link = Christopher Phelps |title=The Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle|url=http://hnn.us/articles/27227.html|work=[[History News Network]]|publisher=[[George Mason University]]|access-date=January 20, 2014}}</ref>