CHRISTOPHER PHELPS is Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University at Mansfield, USA.

'Phelps has written an excellent introduction that places The Jungle in a multitude of political, social, and literary genres, thus making the book accessible to all sorts of readers and useful within a multiple set of academic disciplines.' -Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara 'This is a remarkably well-researched introduction, written with passion and intelligence.' - Michael Kazin, Georgetown University

• Foreword Preface List of Illustrations PART ONE Introduction: Upton Sinclair and the Social Novel PART TWO The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair PART THREE Related Document Theodore Roosevelt, The Report of Mr. James Bronson Reynolds and Commissioner Charles P. McNeill, Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Conditions in the Stock Yards of Chicago, June 4, 1906 Appendixes Chronology Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index