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Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton. It was first published in 1948.The American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the Read More..

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Description	Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton. It was first published in 1948.The American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading.... Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead."(No author.) "Reader's Digest: Gossip, news: J. F. Albright reports on A.B.A. meeting," The Dallas Morning News, 30 May 1948, page 6.Two cinema adaptations of the book have been made, the first in 1951 and the second in 1995. The novel was also adapted as a musical called Lost in the Stars (1949), with a book by the American writer Maxwell Anderson and music composed by the German emigre Kurt Weill.
Description	Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton. It was first published in 1948.The American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading.... Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead."(No author.) "Reader's Digest: Gossip, news: J. F. Albright reports on A.B.A. meeting," The Dallas Morning News, 30 May 1948, page 6.Two cinema adaptations of the book have been made, the first in 1951 and the second in 1995. The novel was also adapted as a musical called Lost in the Stars (1949), with a book by the American writer Maxwell Anderson and music composed by the German emigre Kurt Weill.

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Name	Cry, the Beloved Country
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Authors	Alan Paton
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Language	English
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Country	South Africa
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Pages	256 pp (hardback edition) (UK) 273 pp (hardback edition) (US)
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Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Isbn	0-224-60578-X
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Oclc	13487773
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Publisher	Scribners (USA) & Jonathan Cape (UK)
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Pub_date	December 1948
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Release_date	December 1948
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