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    A Study Guide for Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny"
    A Study Guide for Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny"
    A Study Guide for Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny"
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    A Study Guide for Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny"

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    A Study Guide for Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535835589
    A Study Guide for Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny"

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      A Study Guide for Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny" - Gale

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      The Caine Mutiny

      Herman Wouk

      1951

      Introduction

      Herman Wouk's best-selling novel The Caine Mutiny, subtitled A Novel of World War II, remains one of the greatest American novels to come out of World War II. Wouk, himself a WWII veteran who had served aboard minesweepers in the South Pacific, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for this account of a mutiny aboard a fictional minesweeper, the USS Caine. Commercially speaking, Wouk is the most successful writer of his generation. In critical terms, his work is sneered at or altogether ignored. At a time when American ideals were questioned and literature was full of rebellious heroes, Wouk championed conservative morals such as valor, chivalry, patriotism, and loyalty. Almost half a century after its publication, Wouk's morally idealistic novel remains popular.

      Author Biography

      Wouk was born into a wealthy family on May 27, 1915, in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1934. His first job was writing for radio in New York, and then scripts for Fred Allen from 1936 to 1941. When war broke out, he put his writing talents into the service of the U.S. government and became a dollar-a-year-man, writing the U.S. Treasury Department's radio plays promoting the sale of war bonds.

      In 1942, he joined the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Zane and the USS Southard, both minesweepers in the South Pacific. While aboard ship in 1943, Wouk—like the character Tom Keefer—began to write fiction. The experience aboard minesweepers was reflected in The Caine Mutiny. The novel was not autobiographical, except for the shared experience of Navy duty. It was, however, a staunch defense of the American ideals Wouk evokes in all of his work: valor, honor, leadership, patriotism, and chivalric heroism. The public loved Wouk's work. The Caine Mutiny was a best-seller for weeks and almost single-handedly rescued its financially challenged British publisher. Cape Limited, despite owning the rights to Alan Paton's phenomenally successful Cry, the Beloved Country, was saved by Wouk's World War II novel.

      Before leaving the Navy, Wouk married Betty Sarah Brown on December 9, 1945. They had three sons: Abraham Isaac, Nathaniel, and Joseph. When he was discharged, Wouk began writing again. His first novel, Aurora Dawn, was published in

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