Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian

by Arnold Beichman

Book Overview

Arnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace. Situating Wouk in the same literary tradition as Cervantes, Richardson, Balzac, and Dickens, Beichman demonstrates that Wouk's novels have strong plots, moralist outcomes, and active-essentially positive-characters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087855498X
• ISBN13: 9780878554980
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.