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Cry, the Beloved Country

Name: Cry, the Beloved Country
Author: Alan Paton

Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948. 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."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 , with a book by the American writer Maxwell Anderson and music composed by the German emigre Kurt Weill.

“The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.”

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“For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.”

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“because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.”

Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country

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