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It's short and (bitter)sweet, just like this review. Here are my thoughts and impressions of John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down. According to Penguin, there was a death penalty for anyone possessing this book in Italy at the time. It's hard to wrap my mind around the possibility of dying for a work of fiction. But then again, I have never been in a situation so dire, where even the expression of sympathy could be so precious.
Some minor corrections on the setting: I mentioned this nameless European town was representative of Norway - well, technically it was inspired by Norway, Denmark, and France. But the Norwegians were especially drawn to the work. According to the Penguin introduction, one critic from that country went so far as to call it "the epic of the Norwegian underground." Additionally, it was the federal government, not Steinbeck's publisher, who disapproved of setting the book in America.
"...it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars."
Movie review of The King's Choice: classicsconsidered.com/2018/04/24/a-king-a-boy-and-a-sailors-wife-three-films-of-wwii
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It's short and (bitter)sweet, just like this review. Here are my thoughts and impressions of John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down. According to Penguin, there was a death penalty for anyone possessing this book in Italy at the time. It's hard to wrap my mind around the possibility of dying for a work of fiction. But then again, I have never been in a situation so dire, where even the expression of sympathy could be so precious.
Some minor corrections on the setting: I mentioned this nameless European town was representative of Norway - well, technically it was inspired by Norway, Denmark, and France. But the Norwegians were especially drawn to the work. According to the Penguin introduction, one critic from that country went so far as to call it "the epic of the Norwegian underground." Additionally, it was the federal government, not Steinbeck's publisher, who disapproved of setting the book in America.
"...it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars."
Movie review of The King's Choice: classicsconsidered.com/2018/04/24/a-king-a-boy-and-a-sailors-wife-three-films-of-wwii
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BLOG: classicsconsidered.com
GOODREADS: goodreads.com/classicsconsidered
BOOK LIST: throne.me/u/classicsconsidered
