Plays of Protest

Overview:

  • Title: Plays of Protest
  • Author: Upton Sinclair
  • Year: 1912
  • Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: vi+226
  • Binding: unknown
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Prince Hagen
  • Notes:
    • 1st edition This may be the first publication of some or all of the four plays contained. See the collection record.
    • Only the fourth and longest play in the book is known to be speculative fiction, and is listed below.
    • Price $1.50 is from the listing in "To-morrow's Books Review" (NYT Review of Books), NY Times 1912-02-17 p9, as one of the books reviewed tomorrow. The review, -02-18 pBR83, is entitled "Unreal Plays, False to Life: Upton Sinclair's Are Crude and Vulgar and the People in Them Never Lived".
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of several copies, all perhaps lacking the original cover. -- title page lists four plays below the main title, without non-alphabetic characters or graphics -- copyright 1911 by the publisher -- Preface, p[i]-vi, covers the histories or themes of each --