The Human Comedy

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The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan that portrays the lives and struggles of a small-town American family during World War II.

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instanceOf novel
adaptationType film
adaptedInto The Human Comedy self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Human Comedy (1943 film)
author William Saroyan
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
filmDirector Clarence Brown
filmReleaseYear 1943
filmScreenplayBy William Saroyan
firstPublicationMedium print
genre coming-of-age novel
domestic fiction
war novel
hasFormat novel
hasISBN 9780151423011
hasMediaType book
print
hasSubject United States home front during World War II
surface form: World War II – United States home front

families – fiction
small towns – fiction
telegraph messengers – fiction
hasTargetAudience general adult readers
isInCanonOf American literature
language English
literaryMovement 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Bess Macauley NERFINISHED
Homer Macauley
Marcus Macauley
Mrs. Macauley
Ulysses Macauley
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableCharacterOccupation telegraph messenger
originalPublisherLocation New York City NERFINISHED
protagonistName Homer Macauley NERFINISHED
protagonistOccupation telegraph messenger
publicationYear 1943
publisher Harcourt Brace & World
surface form: Harcourt, Brace and Company
setInCountry United States NERFINISHED
setInFictionalTown Ithaca, California
setInPeriod World War II
setInState California, United States
surface form: California
theme family
innocence and coming of age
loss and grief
small-town American life
war and its effects on the home front
timePeriodOfStory early 1940s

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The Human Comedy adaptedInto The Human Comedy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Human Comedy (1943 film)
Saroyan Theatre namedForNotableWork The Human Comedy
William Saroyan notableWork The Human Comedy
William Saroyan screenStoryFor The Human Comedy
this entity surface form: The Human Comedy (film)
La Comédie humaine titleTranslation The Human Comedy