"The Stars Look Down" von A.J. Cronin ist ein sozialkritischer Roman, der in einer Bergbaugemeinde im Nordosten Englands spielt. Die Geschichte erstreckt sich über mehrere Jahrzehnte und beleuchtet das harte Leben der Bergleute und ihrer...

A. J. Cronin's famous story is a soul-stirring novel of pride and greed, and its terrible retribution. When her father forced her to leave school, and cut off all her contact with the past and future, Mary Brodie's whole life became the...

Originally published in 1945, The Green Years is one of A J Cronin's best-loved novels. It tells the story of Robert Shannon, a young Irish Catholic boy, who, orphaned at the age of seven, is brought to live with his mother's estranged...