The jungle a gripping, gritty expose of the meatpacking industry in turnofthecentury chicago. Damaged goods a novelization of the play les avaries about sexual imorality, by eugene brieux. This catalog page is provided by the online books page, and the literature by project gutenberg. Damaged goods by eugene brieux and upton sinclair free ebook. Three plays by brieux the preface by bernard shaw by brieux. A novelized rendition of brieux s scandalstirring play les avaries, damaged goods tells the story of one mans experience of contracting and living with syphilis in an era when such a diagnosis was often deadly and almost always marked one as a social pariah. Sinclairs work was wellknown and popular in the first half of the twentieth century and he won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1943.
Damaged goods, signed abebooks shop for books, art. Two dozen classic dramas by some of the finest and most famous playwrights of the last hundred yearsanton chekhov, noel coward, oscar wilde, arthur miller, and a. While henrik ibsens play, ghosts, had referenced sexually transmitted disease, brieuxs plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis after an illchosen affair. Bernard shaw writes as follows of damaged goods les avaries in this play brieux took for his theme.
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