God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell, which was made into a film of the same name in 1958.
The novel was so controversial that a literary board in New York attempted to censor it, leading to the author's arrest and trial for obscenity. Exonerated after a jury trial, the author counter-sued the literary society for false arrest and malicious prosecution.
It is laced throughout with racy innuendo, calling into question the issue of...
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God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell, which was made into a film of the same name in 1958.
The novel was so controversial that a literary board in New York attempted to censor it, leading to the author's arrest and trial for obscenity. Exonerated after a jury trial, the author counter-sued the literary society for false arrest and malicious prosecution.
It is laced throughout with racy innuendo, calling into question the issue of marital fidelity.
God's Little Acre was published by Viking Press in 1933. In it, the author Erskine Caldwell sets his sights to the industrialized South. Influenced in part by the textile mill strikes in Gastonia, North Carolina, he considered this work to be a "proletarian" novel dealing with the plight of workers deprived of union protection. It was intended to support these mill hands, or "lintheads," as they were sometimes called. Will Thompson, who leads the strike, represents both the inherent power and the frustration of the working...
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