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Damaged goods : the great play "Les avaries" of Brieux, novelized with the appoval of the author

This 1913 novel is an adaptation of the controversial play Les Avariés , by the French playwright Eugéne Brieux, which featured the first frank depiction of sex and STIs. In Sinclair's novelization, George Dupont, while engaged to his cousin, contracts syphilis, leading to a plot which aims to dispel the myths and spread knowledge about sexually transmitted infections.

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  • "Great play "Avariés" of Brieux"

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  • ""Damaged Goods" (Les Avaries) by Eugene Brieux, presented by Mr. Richard Bennett and Co-workers, under the auspices of the Medical Review of Reviews, of New York and its sociological fund and the Society for Social Hygiene, District of Columbia. The Rev. Donald C. MacLeod, of the First Presbyterian Church, Washington, will deliver the preface. Stage director: Guy F. Bragdon, stage manager Arthur Charwate."
  • "This 1913 novel is an adaptation of the controversial play Les Avariés , by the French playwright Eugéne Brieux, which featured the first frank depiction of sex and STIs. In Sinclair's novelization, George Dupont, while engaged to his cousin, contracts syphilis, leading to a plot which aims to dispel the myths and spread knowledge about sexually transmitted infections."@en
  • "American writer Upton Sinclair rose to literary acclaim for his fearlessness in broaching sensitive and incendiary topics, and this collaboration with French playwright Eugene Brieux is no exception. A novelized rendition of Brieux's scandal-stirring play Les Avaries, Damaged Goods tells the story of one man's 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."@en
  • ""A story about the consequences to a young couple from the mistake of the husband" --Provided by publisher."@en
  • "American writer Upton Sinclair rose to literary acclaim for his fearlessness in broaching sensitive and incendiary topics, and this collaboration with French playwright Eugene Brieux is no exception. A novelized rendition of Brieux's scandal-stirring play ""Les Avaries, "" Damaged Goods tells the story of one man's 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."@en
  • "Blackstone Theatre, Blackstone Theatre Co., lessee, directors CHarles Frohman, Marc Klaw, Abraham L. Erlanger, William Harris, Harry J. Powers, Harry J. Powers, manager, Augustus Pitou, Jr., businness manager. For a limited engagement of three weeks, under the auspices of the American Federation for Sex Hygiene and the American Vigilance Association, Richard Bennett and co-workers present "Damaged Goods" by Eugene Brieux (Academy of France), adapted from the French, by Benjamin Blanchard."
  • "In Damaged Goods the horrors of venereal disease are explored in this social drama. The story centers on a young couple whose future is endangered when the husband makes a terrible mistake."

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  • "Damaged goods; a novel about the victims of syphilis"
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