In this book the Author has handled a difficult subject with the utmost of delicacy consistent with perfect frankness. While telling his story fearlessly, he does so without sensationalism. With nobility of manner and passionate sincerity he relates one of the sordid tragedies common to our great cities; but the story is told with such reserve and such impartiality that the zeal of the sociologist is never allowed to destroy the delicacy of the artist. Throughout the book there predominates the Greek idea of Fate; but there ...
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In this book the Author has handled a difficult subject with the utmost of delicacy consistent with perfect frankness. While telling his story fearlessly, he does so without sensationalism. With nobility of manner and passionate sincerity he relates one of the sordid tragedies common to our great cities; but the story is told with such reserve and such impartiality that the zeal of the sociologist is never allowed to destroy the delicacy of the artist. Throughout the book there predominates the Greek idea of Fate; but there is also something better, the hope of the ultimate amelioration of the evils that the book so aptly describes.
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Add this copy of Daughters of Ishmael to cart. $400.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1912 by Stephen Swift.
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Very Good. First English edition, published in America as *The House of Bondage*. Sunning and modest wear to the spine ends, a near very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to his uncle, Samuel Wright: "With love to Uncle, who read the proofs & saved them from the error of their ways, from Reginald Wright Kauffman, Sept., 1911." There are a few pencil corrections in the text, probably by Kauffman. This *Rideout* novel, published in the U.S. as *The House of Bondage* was widely praised, specifically by Emma Goldman, as the first serious attempt to explore the problem of women and prostitution. Kauffman was born and lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, although he also maintained homes in Switzerland and Bath, Maine. After graduating from Harvard in 1900, he wrote dozens of stories, mysteries, children's books, and non-fiction titles. He was the editor of the Bangor, Maine *Daily News* from 1941-1947.
