Peace, It's Wonderful (1939)
Date:
April 17, 1939
Art Credits:
Notes:
UK edition published by Faber & Faber in 1940
Includes a publisher's note on The Book and The Author.
A note at the end of the book notes that it was produced wholly under union conditions.
Dedication: This book is for and against:
It is for the unnamed man in the multitude, whether he is scared to death, cowed, gathered into a mob, humiliated, fighting mad, unaware, or indifferent.
It is against all men who, deliberately or unconsciously, with guilt or in innocence, out of nobility or stupidity, with regret or not with regret, are imposing death on the present world of helpless human beings.
Includes the stories:
The Greatest Country in the World
The Insurance Salesman, the Peasant, the Rug Merchant, and the Potted Plant
The Year of Heaven
The Europa
Club
1924 Cadillac for Sale
The Love-Kick
Little
Moral Tales from the Old Country
The Warm, Quiet Valley of Home
A Number of the Poor
The Monumental Arena
Peace, It's Wonderful
Piano
The Mouse
The Adventures of a Young Man Some Day To Be Another Jack London
Romance
At the Chop Suey Joint on Larkin Street at Two Thirty in the Morning
Ohio
The War in Spain
Comedy Is Where You Die and They Don't Bury You Because You Can Still Walk
Noonday Dark Enfolding Texas
Johnny the Dreamer, Mary the Model at Magnin's and Plato the Democrat
The Best and Worst People and Things of 1938
What We Want Is Love and Money
The Sweet Singer of Omsk
The Same as Twenty Years Ago
The Russian Writer
The Journey and the Dream
Additional Materials:
In the Forever Saroyan collection:
Peace, It's a Wonderful Thing, 1939, Modern Age Books, inscribed by the author, B80
Peace, It's a Wonderful Thing, 1939, Modern Age Books, B81
Peace, It's a Wonderful Thing, 1939, Modern Age Books, Saroyan's own copy, hand-written corrections made to text, B82
Peace, It's a Wonderful Thing, 1939, Modern Age Books, B83