Name, else very good in edgeworn, price-clipped dustjacket.ē0. The author received a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize in 1962. War correspondent Steinbeck joined commando raids led by actor turned naval officer Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Although the weapons and ideologies may be of the present, they are only vehicles for the theme that a free brave people is unconquerable." One of John Steinbeck’s lesser-known works, The Moon Is Down, was among the most effective pieces of wartime propaganda ever written. The author has purposely refrained from making it literally true to actual events. In this masterful account set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the. The scene of the book is any conquered country in any time. The Moon is Down continues the experiment begun with Of Mice and Men, that of writing a short novel having the time and place disciplines of the stage. Its people are men and women like ourselves, and its hero, Mayor Orden, will stand with George and Lennie, Tom Joad and Jody Tiflin, among the immortal characters of fiction. Yet this book, more than any other he has written, is one of our times and of our hearts today. "For the first time since he wrote his first novel, twelve years ago, Steinbeck has gone outside of America for his setting. 8vo (128 x 193 mm), blue cloth, with silver lettering to spine, blind-stamped lettering to front board.
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