The Caine Mutiny

✍ Scribed by Wouk, Herman

• Book ID: 110481558
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Year: 1951
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 394 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780895774149

✦ Synopsis

Review

Novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1951. The novel was awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Caine Mutiny grew out of Wouk's experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II. The novel focuses on Willie Keith, a rich New Yorker assigned to the USS Caine, who gradually matures during the course of the book. But the work is best known for its portrayal of the neurotic Captain Queeg, who becomes obsessed with petty infractions at the expense of the safety of ship and crew. Cynical, intellectual Lieutenant Tom Keefer persuades loyal Lieutenant Steve Maryk that Queeg's bizarre behavior is endangering the ship; Maryk reluctantly relieves Queeg of command. Much of the book describes Maryk's court-martial and its aftermath. The unstable Queeg eventually breaks down completely. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)

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