Unleavened Bread

For the foodstuff, see Unleavened bread.
For the Feast of Unleavened Bread, see Passover.
Unleavened Bread
Author Robert Grant
Country United States
Language English
Genre novel
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication date
 1900

Unleavened Bread is a 1900 novel by American writer Robert Grant, and one of the best selling books of that year.[1]

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.[2] The "thoroughly detestable" part of Selma White in the play was played by Elizabeth Tyree.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Burt, Daniel S. The Chronology of American Literature, p. 301 (2004)(listing the novel at No. 3 for the year)
  2. ↑ (27 January 1901). "UNLEAVENED BREAD."; An Ironical Comedy Made Out of the Novel Well Acted, The New York Times
  3. ↑ http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Famous_Actresses_of_the_Day_in_America_Second_Series_1000342664/307


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