The meatpackers then tried bribery, offering to buy ads in all of the magazines that Doubleday, Page published if they dropped the novel. Frank Doubleday, a rather prickly personality, told them to try it, and he would fight them in the courts. According to publisher Frank Doubleday's memoir, published in 1972 after his death, agents for the meatpacking industry threatened to sue Doubleday, Page for $1,000,000 if they published The Jungle. (Many 19th-century books were published by subscription, including some of Mark Twain's novels.) It seems likely that this "Subscribers edition" never got beyond the planning stage, because Sinclair didn't raise enough money to publish the book without taking a loss.įinally, Sinclair obtained a publishing contract from another commercial publisher, Doubleday, Page. Send him money for a "Subscribers edition," which he would publish himself, and which (because of the language of the subscription offering and where it appeared) would likely have been the original, uncut version of the novel. Sinclair then decided to ask the readers of The Appeal to Macmillan was pressured to drop the novel by the meatpackers.Īfter Macmillan cancelled its contract, Sinclair approached several other publishers. The circumstances are suspicious, and it seems likely that However, the editors at Macmillan, apparently horrified at the radical nature of some of Sinclair's material, gave Sinclair a list of changes that they wanted him to make in the novel.Īfter Sinclair made the changes, the editors at Macmillian went ahead and cancelled theirĬontract with Sinclair anyway.
Sinclair also got a contract with Macmillan to publish The Jungle in book form. Sinclair's book, The Jungle, was subsequently published in 1905 in The Appeal and in another socialist magazine, One Hoss Philosophy, both published by J. $500 and sent him to Chicago to write about the meatpacking industry. In 1904 the editors of The Appeal to Reason, a Socialist newspaper, gave Upton Sinclair Why the See Sharp Press edition is the edition that
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