![]() ![]() Mayor Orden and Doctor Winter act as the town’s primary leadership. Lanser has been instructed to occupy the town and improve its rail system so that coal can be transported from the town to the front lines of the war. The town is located near a waterway with access to railroads, and its main export is coal from the local mines. The Moon is Down opens with Colonel Lanser’s occupation of a small, unnamed northern European town in an unnamed country during an unnamed war. This summary reflects the 1995 reprinted Penguin edition. The Moon is Down was published soon after The Grapes of Wrath, which won Steinbeck a Pulitzer Prize. John Steinbeck is a prominent figure of American contemporary fiction and is the author of 33 completed works, including the novels East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and the novella Of Mice and Men. ![]()
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