Unleavened Bread

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Unleavened Bread is a 1900 novel by American writer Robert Grant, and one of the best selling books of that year.{{cite book |last=Grant |first=Robert |author-link= Robert Grant (novelist) |title=Unleavened Bread |place= New York |publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons|year=1900 |url= https://archive.org/details/unleavenedbreadx00gran |access-date= October 13, 2020 |via= Internet Archive}}Burt, Daniel S. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C&pg=PA301 The Chronology of American Literature], p. 301 (2004)(listing the novel at No. 3 for the year)

Plot introduction

A businessman's selfish wife forces her way into upper society.

Play

The novel was also adapted into a Broadway play in 1901, directed by Leo Ditrichstein.{{cite web | title="UNLEAVENED BREAD."; An Ironical Comedy Made Out of the Novel Well Acted. | website=The New York Times | date=1901-01-27 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/01/27/archives/unleavened-bread-an-ironical-comedy-made-out-of-the-novel-well.html | access-date=2020-12-07}} The "thoroughly detestable" part of Selma White in the play was played by Elizabeth Tyree.{{Cite web |url=http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Famous_Actresses_of_the_Day_in_America_Second_Series_1000342664/307 |title=P.270-1. Famous Actresses of the Day in America Second Series |access-date=2015-12-04 |archive-date=2015-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208063829/http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Famous_Actresses_of_the_Day_in_America_Second_Series_1000342664/307 |url-status=dead }}

References

External links

[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14645 Online text at Project Gutenberg]
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Category:1900 American novels

Category:Charles Scribner's Sons books