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Mister Roberts

Title
Mister Roberts / by Thomas Heggen ; illustrated by Samuel Hanks Bryant.
Author
Heggen, Thomas, 1919-1949
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.

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Additional Authors
  • Bryant, Samuel H.
  • Rosenwald, Edith Goodkind
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Description
xvii, 221 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Lieutenant Junior Grade naval officer, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during World War II. Nearly all action takes place on a backwater cargo ship, the USS Reluctant, that sails, as written in the play, "from apathy to tedium with occasional side trips to monotony and ennui." This irreverent, often hilarious story about the crew of the Reluctant has enjoyed wide and enduring popularity. It was subsequently adapted as a play, a feature film, a television series, and a television movie. The film version with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon is one of the most well-known movies of WWII.
Subject
  • 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American > Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area > Fiction
  • Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Opérations navales américaines > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Pacifique, Région du > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Military campaigns
  • Military operations, Naval > American
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations > Fiction
  • Sea stories
  • Pacific Ocean > Fiction
  • Pacifique, Océan > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Pacific Area
  • Pacific Ocean
  • World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Sea stories.
  • War stories.
  • War fiction.
  • Fiction.
LCCN
46025229
OCLC
  • ocm00284836
  • 284836
  • SCSB-967572
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library