From here to eternity.

861 pages

English language

Published 1951 by Scribner.

OCLC Number:
285331
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150378284

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The publishers believe that the appearance of this novel is of comparable importance to the publication of This Side of Paradise or Look Homeward, Angel. For like the first novels of Fitzgerald and Wolfe, From Here to Eternity introduces a writer who will take a commanding place in American literature.

The events of the novel occur in Hawaii during the months before Pearl Harbor. But the story might have happened anywhere, for its elements are the elements of life itself: courage, brutality, love—and above all the loneliness and separateness of the human being, the impossibility of ever touching, except momentarily, the soul of another.

The principal figures of From Here to Eternity are Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden. Prewitt, a good welterweight and a fine bugler, has transferred from a soft berth in the rear echelon to an infantry battalion because of his …

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Subjects

  • United States. Army -- Military life -- Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
  • Soldiers -- Fiction
  • United States -- History, Military -- 20th century -- Fiction

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