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100 1 _aBaker, Elizabeth,
_d1876-1962
245 1 0 _aChains: A Play, in Four Acts
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chains_(play)
500 _aRelease date is 2014-07-10
508 _aProduced by Paul Haxo from page images generously made available by the Internet Archive and the University of Toronto Libraries.
520 _a"Chains: A Play, in Four Acts" by Elizabeth Baker is a play first performed in 1909. Set in Edwardian England, it follows Charley Wilson, a London clerk trapped in suburban monotony, and his wife Lily as they struggle to make ends meet. When their lodger decides to abandon everything and emigrate to Australia, Charley dreams of escape too. But everyone around him—wife, family, friends—ridicules such ambition. As financial pressures mount and his wages are cut, Charley must choose between pursuing freedom or accepting the suffocating chains of respectability and duty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEnglish drama -- 20th century
653 _aEngland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
653 _aMiddle class -- England -- Drama
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46240
999 _c87079
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