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This relatively obscure novel by the author of “The Day of the Locust” tells the story of Lemuel Pitkin, a Vermonter who loses his house to foreclosure.

Schneider said the tactic is known in legal circles as “Boulwarism,” a practice named after General Electric Co.’s chief negotiator, Lemuel Ricketts Boulware, who tried in the 1960s to force an agreement with the International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, as a “take-it-or-leave it” approach to negotiations.

The first, in 1981, was “Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by Members of the Ku Klux Klan,” an account of Penn’s 1964 death.

His death, at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Correctional Unit, was caused by prostate cancer, Samantha Higgins, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, said in an email on Monday.

Gen. Lemuel Mathewson, to the Little Theatre of Alexandria to use in stage productions.