His wife is proud that all her four men go down the mines. Robert Fenwick is a miner, and so are his three sons. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely dark blue jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. First published in 1935, this is a first edition, first impression of the new edition of 1984. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover.

It may, indeed, come to be regarded as the great novel of its period'-and the continuing demand and fame of the book show that this high opinion was not exaggerated.

Dr Cronin has yet written wider in scope, deeper in human sympathy, and greater in the totality of its achievement A great novel. When it was first published, the Irish Times described it as, 'The best novel that. He observed the people, pitied and admired them, and his novel is not only exciting but written with compassion and knowledge. Cronin drew on his experiences as a general practitioner in a small mining town. Cronin's fourth novel, and, with its epic tale of a north country mining family, has always been one of his most popular For this novel A.

The conflicts and tensions are dramatic and moving: David's unselfish battle for his fellow-miners his deadly struggle with the owner of the mine, a cold, sanctimonious man who is directly responsible-in a disaster which is described with unforgettable poignancy-for the death of ten of his workmen David's love for Jenny, the pretty little nonentity who ruthlessly exploits him and the greedy, unscrupulous Joe Gowlan, finally master of them all. who ruin their health to dig the nation's coal and are treated with such inhumanity when they try to better their miserable wages or the appalling conditions in which they work. But David, the youngest, is determined that somehow he will educate himself and work to ameliorate the lives of his comrades.

The Stars Look Down by A.J. Cronin