The Stars Look Down

Name: The Stars Look Down
Author: A. J. Cronin

by A. J. Cronin

Novel about coal miners and the price of industrial ambition

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A. J. Cronin

Cronin was a Scottish novelist and doctor whose novels combining medical setting with social conscience achieved enormous popular success. The Citadel and The Stars Look Down are important documents of class and medicine in the interwar period.

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The CitadelNovel of a Scottish doctor's idealism tested by poverty and corruption
Hatter's CastleNovel of a tyrant's family downfall in industrial Scotland
The Keys of the KingdomNovel of a Catholic priest's faith tested in China and persecution
Shannon's WayNovel of a medical researcher discovering truth through science