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First published in 1934and long out of print, The Land of Plenty is one of the most graphically exciting novels of the thirties. Its reprinting here will be an important addition to the literature of the period now being reissued because of the overwhelming interest in the decade. A story of a Western factory town, the novel portrays with sharp realism the blue-collar workers' struggle for existence and depicts, with sensitivity and compassion, workers and owners alike in their poverty, depravity, good­ness, and evil, and their attempts to realize their hopes for a future. This edition is a reprint of the 1934Farrar, Rhinehart edition.

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I didn't like it. But I couldn't stop reading it. And I can't forget it. A book for the James Cain bullence - hard-boiled realism, with an industrial theme; a proletarian novel, written in staccato style, flashlight after flashlight, revealing the men in different parts of a northwestern factory, the owners in their homes, the underlying bitternesses and resentments and fears, each level for the level above. Poverty - depravity - lusts and passions - struggles and hopes - and at the end despair. The whole to do over again. An indictment of our social system, of the labor situation, and yet never consciously a propaganda novel. Of interest to men, primarily. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Harry T. Moore is Re­search Professor of English at Southern Illinois University.

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