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The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1942
Pages
Pages 120

By ten forty-five it was all over: the town occupied, the defenders defeated, the war finished. That is how Steinbeck opens the conquest of a small coal town on a cold coast, and everything after proves the sentence a lie.

it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
The Moon Is Down, John Steinbeck

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