{"title": "The inside of the cup", "key": "/works/OL18521604W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL316976A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [2758375, 13557289, 13557365, 2760006, 2807708, 1849448, 1849450, 1849446, 1849453, 1849451, 8244658, 14479281], "first_publish_date": "July 4, 2007", "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "WITH few exceptions, the incidents recorded in these pages take place in one of the largest cities of the United States of America, and of that portion called the Middle West, - a city once conservative and provincial, and rather proud of these qualities; but now outgrown them, and linked by lightning limited trains to other teeming centers of the modern world: a city overtaken, in recent years, by the plague which has swept our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Prosperity."}], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "WITH few exceptions, the incidents recorded in these pages take place in one of the largest cities of the United States of America, and of that portion called the Middle West, - a city once conservative and provincial, and rather proud of these qualities; but now outgrown them, and linked by lightning limited trains to other teeming centers of the modern world: a city overtaken, in recent years, by the plague which has swept our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Prosperity."}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Classic Literature", "Hypocrisy", "Christians", "Poverty"], "description": "The number-one bestseller in 1913, The Inside of the Cup is a fascinating novel dealing with New England politics. It paved the way for social criticism in novels and is representative of nineteenth-century American thought.", "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-02-07T23:28:06.372070"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-18T01:30:16.339421"}}