Damaged Goods: The Great Play "Les Avariés" of Eugene Brieux, Novelized with the Approval of the Author
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by Henri Matisse, Rembrandt and Edvard Munch. A young man of good family catches syphilis a month before his wedding, is told by a quack that he can marry safely, and does. Brieux's play was banned in France and prosecuted in America; Sinclair novelised it in 1913 to get the argument past the censors, having already spent seven weeks undercover in the Chicago stockyards to write The Jungle. It is a public-health pamphlet with characters, and it worked. Forty-seven plates of portraits and street scenes by Munch and Manet, from 1629 to 1927, echo the play's theme of private lives exposed to public view.
Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by Henri Matisse, Rembrandt and Edvard Munch. A young man of good family catches syphilis a month before his wedding, is told by a quack that he can marry safely, and does. Brieux's play was banned in France and prosecuted in America; Sinclair nov...
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Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American novelist and social critic. He published Damaged Goods in 1913, a novel that addressed venereal disease and public health. He wrote over ninety books, including The Jungle (1906), an exposé of the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American novelist and social critic. He published Damaged Goods in 1913, a novel that addressed venereal disease and public health. He wrote over ninety books, including The Jungle (1906), an exposé of the meatpacking industry.
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