ZANGWILL, Israel

The Forcing House

First edition. Ownership stamp on the title page and two neat owner names on the front fly else fine in very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with some shallow chipping at the crown. A sequel to the author's play The Cockpit, set in revolutionary Russia, where despotism has overtaken the ideals of the socialists who engineered the takeover. Zangwill, the London-born son of Russian Jewish refugees, was a popular novelist of his day and the author of Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People, which awoke England to the plight of Jewish refugees and helped derail then current anti-alien legislation.

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