The "Genius" / by Theodore Dreiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.

Contributor:

Yewdale, Merton Stark.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Indiana--Fiction.

Indiana.

Painters--Fiction.

Painters.

Art--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

x, 736 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Boni and Liveright Publishers, [1923]

Notes:

With half-title.

T.p. printed within double-ruled border.

"Copyright, 1915, by John Lane Company. Copyright, 1923, by Boni and Liveright, Inc."

"Foreword" by Merton S. Ywedale (p. v-x) not found in all issues with this imprint.

"'The Genius' was first published in 1915. More than one year after this and after the book had had a considerable sale, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice notified the John Lane Company that the sale, advertisement and publication of this work violated the laws of the State of New York against obscene literature ... The publishers in July 1916 withdrew 'The Genius' merely upon the attitude of the Society for the Prevention of Vice and despite the fact that all intelligent opinion in the United States in the form of press and periodical reviews and personal statement endorsed the work as a fine and interesting piece of literature ... In the case of 'The Genius,' American letters are on trial, and the literary world will watch with interest the verdict. It is earnestly hoped that to every honest mind will come the conviction that 'The Genius' is a work of literary excellence and not an immoral tale calculated to fire prurient minds and to besmirch the morals of infants and imbeciles."--Foreword.

Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Front cover lettered in red upon a gilt panel. Boni and Liveright ornament stamped in blind in lower right hand corner of front cover.

Cited in:

Pizer, D. Dreiser, A15-1

OCLC:

3490321