God’s Little Acre

novel by Caldwell

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"God's Little Acre" is a controversial 1933 novel by American author Erskine Caldwell. The book depicts the lives of impoverished white sharecroppers in the rural American South, blending themes of violence, sex, and grotesque tragicomedy. It achieved significant readership, particularly in France and the Soviet Union, and is considered one of Caldwell's most important works alongside "Tobacco Road". The term "God's acre" itself refers to a churchyard or a piece of land used for burying the dead.123

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Erskine Caldwell
…on Tobacco Road and on God’s Little Acre (1933), another best-selling novel featuring a cast of hopelessly poor and degenerate whites in the rural South. Among his other more important works are Trouble in July (1940); the episodic narrative Georgia Boy (1943), a well-told story of boyhood; the literary autobiography…
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…on Tobacco Road and on God’s Little Acre (1933), another best-selling novel featuring a cast of hopelessly poor and degenerate whites in the rural South. Among his other more important works are Trouble in July (1940); the episodic narrative Georgia Boy (1943), a well-told story of boyhood; the literary autobiography…
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Anthony Mann
The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann
Mann’s version of Erskine Caldwell’s best seller God’s Little Acre (1958) was strengthened by the presence of Ryan and Ray, although much of the flavour of the funny but profane novel was leached out to satisfy the censors. There were no such compromises in Man of the West (1958), a…
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Mann’s version of Erskine Caldwell’s best seller God’s Little Acre (1958) was strengthened by the presence of Ryan and Ray, although much of the flavour of the funny but profane novel was leached out to satisfy the censors. There were no such compromises in Man of the West (1958), a…
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