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The Moon Is Down is a novel by American writer John Steinbeck. Fashioned for adaptation for the theatre and for which Steinbeck received the Norwegian King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, it was published by Viking Press in March 1942. The story tells of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed ...
The Moon Is Down es una novela dramática y distópica estadounidense escrita por John Steinbeck en 1942 y publicada por Viking Press. La historia se centra en la ocupación militar de una pequeña localidad del norte de Europa de una nación sin especificar en guerra con Inglaterra o Unión Soviética (al igual que lo estuvo Noruega con la ...
The title of The Moon Is Down comes from a line in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Immediately before encountering Macbeth on his way to kill the sleeping king, Banquo asks Fleance how his night is going, and Fleance responds by saying, “The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.”
In his short, 1942 novel, The Moon is Down, written to be adapted to the stage, Steinbeck turns his attention to the battle for democracy in the face of looming totalitarianism. While the countries remain nameless, the brief story concerns the invasion of Norway by the Nazis and the growing resistence of the townspeople in response to the Nazis ...
1 de nov. de 1995 · The Moon Is Down. John Steinbeck. Penguin, Nov 1, 1995 - Fiction - 144 pages. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside—and betrayal born within the close-knit community. A Penguin Classic.
About The Moon Is Down. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside–and betrayal born within the close-knit community. Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germanyâ’s power, this masterful fable uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war–and about human nature.
The Moon is Down Summary. One Sunday morning an unnamed European town is invaded by a foreign military. The village’s twelve soldiers are at a competition organized by a storekeeper named Mr. Corell. This competition is in the woods outside of town, and by the time the troops realize what’s happened, it’s already too late—the enemy has ...
