Witte Arrives: a novel

Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916. Hardcover. 304p., dampstained beginning page 232 to the end, previous owner's name on endpaper, toning to frontis tissue-guard, shelfwear, worn first Canadian edition hardcover bound in blue cloth boards and faded gilt titles. *Rideout novel. Hanna 3524. Author's first novel.

"Tobenkin's Witte Arrives traces the life Emil Witte from his arrival as a child at the old Castle Garden entry station, predecessor of Ellis Island, through his studious boyhood to a career, first a newspaper reporter and finally as a youthful editor on an established liberal weekly. Yet Witte sees that caste lines have (truncated) formed in his adopted country, the masses are gripped by the terrible fear of joblessness, and he himself must face religious discrimination as a Jew. His first success comes to him when, as a Socialist, he writes what he consciously considers to be an Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage-slavery." - Rideout p. 81. (Inventory #: 330866)