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Author Daggett, Rollin Mallory, 1831-1901.

Title The psychoscope : a sensational drama in five acts / by R.M. Daggett and J.T. Goodman ; with an introduction and notes by Lawrence I. Berkove.

Imprint Charleston, SC : Mark Twain Journal, The Citadel, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  812.4 D132p 2006    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description xxxv, 82 p., [1] leaf of plates (folded) : ill., ports., facsim. ; 22 cm.
Note "America's most precocious experiment in realistic theater ... written by Mark Twain's two close friends ... contributed to the new genre of science fiction with its namesake invention, an anticipation of the lie detector. The play was also advanced in the venture into the new interest of the [sic] detective fiction, and by its bold social commentary."--P. [4] of cover.
Facsimile reprint. Originally published: Virginia [City], Nev., 1871.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Science fiction plays.
Added Author Goodman, J. T.
Berkove, Lawrence I.
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.
Added Title Mark Twain journal.
ISBN 0978589408 (pbk.)
9780978589400 (pbk.)

 
    
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