The Stars Look Down: A Novel

This thought-provoking novel of the challenges a coal mining community faces in the early twentieth century is "the finest work Cronin has given his public" (Kirkus Reviews).

First published in 1935, The Stars Look Down tells the story of a North Country mining town as its inhabitants make their way through social and political upheaval. Digging into workers' rights, social change, and the relationship between labor and capitalism, the struggles of the novel's trifecta of protagonists—pol...