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The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck
The Moon Is Down
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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we... show more
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers and to the many who revisit them again and again.  
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Format: papier
ISBN: 0141185538
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
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mattries37315
mattries37315 rated it
4.0 The Moon Is Down
Soldiers loyally following their Leader act on the advice of a small coal mining town’s traitor to take it over for the benefit of their ongoing war. The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck is wartime novella about a how occupying soldiers learn that peaceful townspeople do not like being told what to d...
jbarrett5 book reviews, etc
jbarrett5 book reviews, etc rated it
5.0
The moon is down by John SteinbeckHad no idea what this book was even about, had just seen who it was by and knew I wanted to read it.I'm often asked who I'd want to have dinner with and I would always pick John Steinbeck. Have read many of this other works and have enjoyed them.This one is about wa...
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it
3.5 A Man Passed by Time: The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The topic of John Steinbeck's final novel is amazingly acute today although it was first published more than fifty years ago... it's a novel revolving around morals in a money-centred modern world. The Winter of Our Discontent is the story of a good and honest man who finds his morals corrupted by...
Thariena
Thariena rated it
4.0 Review: John Steinbeck - The Moon is Down
Information First published in 1943. My copy had 110 pages and is published by Meulenhoff (a Dutch company). The premise "The Moon Is Down" explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceful town comes face-to-face with evil impos...
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt rated it
5.0
I very much enjoyed this novel. A study in morality, it is both humorous and heart breaking. Steinbeck is a true master of his art. An absolutely perfect piece.
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