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Menschenwee is a 1903 Dutch socialist novel by Israël Querido. The 1910 translation, Toil of Men, was read, among others, by D.H. Lawrence. Socialist elements are evident in his treatment of the human condition in this novel, a detailed description of the miseries he witnessed among the people of Beverwijk, where he was then living.
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- Jessie Chambers D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record 1935p.123 "The last of all the books that Lawrence passed on to me was Toil of Men by Izrael Querido. It was a story of the Dutch bulb farms, told with a brutality that struck me as exaggeration for the sake of effect. I returned it to Lawrence along with .."
- Israël Querido Biography https://www.britannica.com/biography/Israel-Querido#ref164858 Available online at Nov. 27 2019.
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